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THE AUTHOR. 



PROTESTANTS fflKE 



OR 



The Danger of Romanism 



BY 

REV. W. H. GREER. 



ILLUSTRATED. 



'For every one that doeth evil, hateth the light, neither 

comet h to the light, because their deeds were evil." 

—John hi, 20. 



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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 
A Sketch of the Church of Rome 9 

Union of Church and State. — The Exterior Church. — 
Rise of Papacy. — Indulgences. — Purgatory. — Martin 
Luther. — Massacre of St. Bartholomew. — Results of 
the Reformation. 

CHAPTER II. 
Jesuits 21 

Loyola's Visions. — Aims. — Immorality of their Teach- 
ings. — Expulsions. — Wealth. 

CHAPTER III. 
Rome's Wealth 35 

How Obtained. — Indulgences. — Masses. — Relics. — 
Public Treasury. — Poverty. 

CHAPTER IV. 

Rome's Political Power 47 

Rome's New Possessions —Rome's Power Supreme. — 
Catholic Oath Void. Majorities. Rome Controls 

New York Knights of Labor Subject to Rome. — 

Military Organization. No Opposition. 



CHAPTER V. 
Rome and Public Schools 63 

[gnorance and Superstition. — Contrast. — The Pope 
the Supreme Judge. — Parochial Schools. — Rome 
must be Obeyed. — Archbishop Ireland's Address. 



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CHAPTER VI. 
Rome's Intolerance 

An Honest Confession. — Inquisition Necessary. — 
Protestantism Denounced. — What may be Pub- 
lished. 

CHAPTER VII. 
Inquisition 86 

Its Terrible Work. — Why Tortured. — The Place of 
Torture. — Story of Isaac Orobis — William Lithgow. 
— Dark Record Justified by Rome. — Conclusion. 

CHAPTER VIII. 
Rome and the Bible 99 

No Bible Society. — Bibles Burned. 

CHAPTER IX. 
Nunneries 104 

A Young Lady's Experience. — The Pope's Investiga- 
tion. — A Nun's Instructions. — Peril of Girls. — 
Priests in the Confessional. — How Priests can 
Enter Nunneries. — Deluded Mothers. — Submit or 
Die. — Murder of a Beautiful Girl. — St. Frances, we 
are Sent for You. — Slaughter of Infants — Burial 
Place for Infants. 

CHAPTER X. 
Rome Fosters Crime 127 

Sabbath Desecration. — Immorality. — Who Fill our 
Prisons. — Murder. 



CHAPTER XL 
The Confessional 133 

An Honest Confession. — Improper Questions. — Diver- 
sity of Opinion. 

CHAPTER XII. 
Rome and Whiskey 141 

Confession. — Encouraging Intemperance. — Rome's 
Policy.- -Saloons Control our Cities. — Temperance 
Societies. 

CHAPTER XIII. 
The Worship of Saints 150 

Idolatrous Worship. — Blasphemy. — St. Joseph. 

CHAPTER XIV. 
Rome's Charity. . : 155 

The Church and the Poor. — Church and State. — 
Treatment of Orphans. 

CHAPTER XV. 
The Canon Law and Eate Papal Utterances. 1 63 

Utterances of Leo XIII. — Rights the State does not 
Have. — Rights and Powers of the Church. 



PREFACE. 



In presenting this volume we do not profess 
originality, but have gleaned facts from all available 
sources, having quoted freely from Roman Catholic 
standard works, also the works of ex-priests and nuns. 

Among some of the works quoted are, "Romanism 
and the Republic," by Rev. I. J. Lansing; " Romanism 
and the Reformation," by Guinness; "Why Priests 
Should Wed," by Fulton; "What Rome Teaches," by 
Miss Cussack; "Popish Nunneries," by Wm. Hogan; 
"Rum, Rags and Religion," by O. M. Owen; "Rome 
Against the Bible," by W. S. Plumer, D. D.; "The 
Jesuits," by Principal Austin; "Essays on the Church 
in Canada," by O'Sullivan; "Plain Talk," by Mgr. 
Segur; "Christian Schools, or Judges of the Faith," 
by Jenkins, and "Maria Monk." 

We send forward this little volume in the hopes 

that it may arouse Protestants to a sense of danger, 

and that they may be prepared to cope with this 

Mother of Harlots. 

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A SKETCH OF THE CHURCH OF ROME. 

Thk Roman Catholic Church, properly so speak- 
ing, comes into existence about 313. The population 
of the entire Roman empire at this time was 120 
millions and about 6 millions of these were professing 
Christians, who were suffering persecution under Ro- 
man rulers. When Constantine became emperor, he 
began to patronize Christianity from selfish motives. 

The decree of Milan in 313, proclaiming full toler- 
ation for Christians, was his statesman-like manoeuvre, 
and it succeeded in promoting his own interests. 

UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE. 

Constantine now openly supported Christianity, and 
thousands of people who cared nothing for religion 
affected to espouse it, because it was the popular side. 
Soon there became millions of people who professed 
(not possessed) Christ's religion. 

Constantine's patronage of Christianity did much 
to strengthen his power, while it tended to ruin tile 
spirituality of the Church. The more firmly he united 



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Church and State the more he injured it, because the 
Church and State are unnatural companions. Some 
one has said, "Tie Religion to the State chariot, and 
it becomes defiled by being dragged through the mire 
of expediency." 

Christ said to the Roman governor just before his 
crucifixion, " My kingdom is not of this world." 
Would that Christ's followers had always kept this 
saying in mind, and had remained under the protection 
of God alone, whatever they might have suffered. The 
change in the outward forms of Christianity, under 
Constantine and his successors, seemed to render the 
solemn declaration of Christ a mockery. Under suc- 
cessive rulers it became gorgeous, cruelly intolerant 
and murderous. 

We can never find real Christianity robed in worldly 
grandeur, but we find it lowly and persecuted, thus 
resembling its divine founder. 

THE EXTERIOR CHURCH. 

Men now sought for something exterior ; they had 
grown tired of the bond of love Christ left to bind 
them together, and now they sought union through 
Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops and Priests, for faith in 
the heart no longer connected the members of the 
Church. The living Church retiring gradually within 
a few faithful hearts, an exterior Church was substituted 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 1 1 

In its place, and all its forms declared to be of divine 
appointment. 

Salvation no longer came through Christ, but was 
conveyed through channels that the}' themselves had 
invented. 

Rome was not satisfied with ecclesiastical power, 
but sought temporal power as well, and gained it 
through the usurper, Pepin, who had wrested from the 
Lombards the cities they had taken from the Greek 
emperor, and instead of restoring them to that prince, 
he laid the keys on St. Peter's alter and swore with 
uplifted hands that he had not taken up arms for man 
but to obtain remission of sins from* God and to do 
homage to St. Peter. Thus France established the 
temporal power of the popes. 

During the ninth century Rome was governed by 
abandoned women. It is said that a woman named 
Joan became pope, and whose sex was betrayed by the 
pangs of child-birth during a procession. Theodora 
and Marozia installed and deposed at their pleasure the 
popes of Rome. In 1033, a youth who had been 
brought up in debauchery, became pope under the 
name of Benedict IX. This position did not purify 
him, for he still continued in the same degrading 
vices, and at last sold the papacy to a Roman 
ecclesiastic. 



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Henry III., the German emperor, deposed three 
popes and appointed the one he wanted to fill St. 
Peter's chair. 

Thus, through Henry III. we find the papacy gain- 
ing power and becoming reformed of some of its 
abuses. 

RISE OF PAPACY. 

To exalt the Papacy is to exalt the Church, and 
now begins a new era for Papacy. It rises, to trample 
the princes of the earth under foot. Hildebrand comes 
forth, whose one aim is to restore to papal Rome all 
that imperial Rome had lost. At one time he ordered 
the Emperor of Germany to kiss his toe. 

His first task was to organize the nlilitia of the 
Church to emancipate Rome from its subjection to the 
empire. His expectations were only partially realized, 
for he died in exile. 

The kingdoms of Christendom, already subject to 
the spiritual authority of Rome, now become her 
slaves. What a change in the Church. At first, a 
community of brethren, worshiping the living God, 
with humble pastors as their teachers, and now an 
absolute monarchy, compelling all men to yield to her 
power. Rites and ceremonies multiplied. Prayers 
were made to the saints, and thus a real idolatry sup- 
planted the living and true God. The system of pen- 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 13 

ance was introduced. At first this consisted in certain 
public expressions of repentence, required by the 
Church from those who had been excluded on account 
of scandal and who desired to be restored. It was not 
long, however, before penance was extended to every 
sin. Penance was thus confounded with repentance, 
and instead of looking to Christ for pardon, it was 
sought for in the Church through penitential works. 
Men were required to fast, to go barefoot, to take long 
journeys on foot, or to renounce the world and em- 
brace a monastic life. 

In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Italy became 
greatly agitated. Nobles and peasants, old and young, 
even young children, went in pairs by hundreds, 
thousands and tens of thousands, through the towns and 
villages, visiting the churches in the depth of winter. 
Armed with whips and scourges they flogged each 
other without mercy, and the streets resounded with 
cries and groans that were pitiful to hear. 

The priests began to see that a remedy must be 
found. They accordingly invented 

INDULGENCES. 

They explained to their penitents : 
" You cannot accomplish the task imposed on you. 
Well; we, the priests of God and your pastors, will 



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take this heavy burden upon ourselves. For a seven 
weeks' fast you shall pay twenty pence if you are rich; 
ten, if less wealthy ; and three pence if you are poor; 
and so on for other matters." 

A hull of Clement VII., declared it to he an article 
of faith. Rome was not yet satisfied. 

This system of barter was soon extended. vSome 
of the ancient philosophers had conceived the idea that 
men were to be purified by fire. Rome now adheres 
to this opinion, and 

PURGATORY 

is annexed to the pope's domain by another bull. In 
that place men would have to expiate their sins that 
could not be expiated here on earth. Indulgences 
would liberate their souls from that awful place in 
which their sins would detain them. 

The Romans saw their pockets being filled by this 
traffic, and Pope Boniface was enabled to effect still 
more to fill the treasury of Rome. In 1300 he pub- 
lished a bull, in which he declared to the Church that 
every hundred years all who made a pilgrimage to 
Rome should receive a plenary indulgence. From the 
surrounding countries people flocked in crowds, and 
in one month 200,000 pilgrims visited Rome, each 
bringing an offering. 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 15 

Roman greed knew no bounds. The term of years 
was soon fixed at fifty, then at thirty-three, and lastly 
at twenty-five years interval. Then, to make it more 
convenient to the purchasers, and to increase the profit 
of the sellers, both the jubilee and its indulgences were 
transported from Rome to every market-place in Christ- 
endom. It was unnecessary to leave one's home, as 
each man could be accommodated at his own door. 

" All these people maintained that the pope, ' sitting 
as God in the temple of God,' could not err, and they 
would not suffer any contradiction." 

Could the evil become greater. 

The news of this infamous Papal imposture came 
to the ears of 

MARTIN LUTHER 

and impelled him to speak out, — 

" Call you that God's religion ? I say it is the 
Devil's religion. Call that the religion from heaven? 
I say it comes from hell ! " 

The poor, superstitious people, turned pale at such 
words, and began to think the world would soon end. 
But Martin Luther was in earnest, and fearlessly ex- 
posed the fraud practiced upon the people by Popery, 
An earnest band of men soon gathered around him, 
and in the course of a few years they gave Popery such 



16 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

a scorching that she has not yet recovered herself, 
and would that they had only killed the old serpent ; 
hut again she is raising her head in our midst to be 
crushed or to crush. This is the question lor Protes- 
tants to consider at the present time. Which will it 

The Reformation furnished the Inquisition with 
new victims. For a time it had everything its own 
way. Philip II. of Spain renewed the provision which 
rewarded an informer from the property of the accused. 
During the years 1559-60 the Inquisition was at the 
height of its activity. It had been a principal means 
of driving the best classes of people from the country, 
and of crippling its literary and scientific life. The 
Inquisition was also active in America, for it was early 
introduced from Spain and converted Mexico, Cartha* 
gena and Lima into regions of terror. It is unneces> 
sary to say much on the Reformation, as all are famil- 
iar with the leading points. One incident, however, 
we must relate, and that is 

THK MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW. 

"It was arranged by Catharine (regent of France) 
that the semblance of a thorough reconciliation be- 
tween the Protestants and the Roman Catholics should 
take place. Her daughter was to marry Henry of 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 17 

Navarre, the leader of the Huguenots or French Pro- 
testants. Brilliant festivities were arranged, and the 
whole land was alive w T ith a new joy that, at last, the 
Huguenots and Roman Catholics could live, hence- 
forth, in peace, and each worship with equal rights 
before the law. The marriage was celebrated August 
18, 1572, but on the night of the 24th a bell in the 
palace belfry gave the signal for general slaughter. 
This was the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's eve. The 
Huguenot chiefs were all in Paris, and their where- 
abouts was known. Admiral Coligny, an intrepid 
warrior and firm Huguenot, was murdered in cold 
blood, and cast out of the window into the stone court 
below 7 . For seven days and nights the streets ran 
with Protestant blood. Outside of Paris the massacre 
was sudden and overwhelming. The Loire and the 
Rhine ran red and thick with the blood and bodies 
of victims. The cities of Meaux, Orleans, Bourges, 
Lyons, Rouen, Toulouse and Bordeaux were centres 
of the persecution. Not less than one hundred thou- 
sand Huguenots fell beneath flame and sword. The 
pretext for the universal murder was, that Coligny 
had concerted a secret conspiracy against the crown. 
There is not, and never was, a vestige of authority for 
even the StlSpicion of SUCh a thing. At Rome there 

was great rejoicing over the bloodshed. Pope Gregory 



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ordered the ringing of the bells of the city, and a spe- 
cial medal was struck in honor of his triumph." 
(Hurst's History of Reformation.) 

We will now consider some of the 

RESULTS OF THE REFORMATION. 

Protestants rapidly increased. The common people 
had been sorely oppressed. Independence was being 
won, and the citizens were desirous of a higher and 
purer citizenship. The y Reformation became the 
mother of Republics. The people began to think. 
Men of culture and learning embraced Protestantism; 
and wherever the Reformation triumphed, universities 
and other institutions of learning sprang up; good 
morals and political liberty made rapid advancement; 
but the greatest benefit was the spread of the Gospel 
and its translation in different languages. 

ROME'S NEW FIELDS. 

Rome sought new fields for labor, and found them 
in America, being the first successful colonists. Their 
first settlements were as follows: 

St. Augustine, 1565; Santa Fe, 1585, and San Fran- 
cisco, 1776. In 1604 they entered Canada under Cham- 
plain and organized several missions. The foundation 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 19 

for the Jesuit College for the Hurons was laid at 
Quebec in 1635. During the next ten years the Jesuits 
founded a number of schools for the Indians, and were 
successful in gaining many converts. At the present 
time there are about 2,000,000 Catholics throughout 
Canada, over 2,000 Churches, and about 2,200 priests. 
In three of its Provinces there are 4,250 Separate 
Schools for elementary education. There are 48 Col- 
leges, 16 Theological Seminaries, and about 200 
Academies. The hierarchy is composed of one Cardi- 
nal, 6 Archbishops, 16 Bishops, 5 Vicars-Apostolic, and 
one Prefect-Apostolic. 

The history of the Catholic Church properly began 
in the United States with the settlement of Maryland, 
under the auspices of Lord Baltimore, in 1634. They 
did not make very rapid progresses they were deprived 
of equal rights. But the era of the revolution was 
favorable to them. Congress declared for religious 
toleration. Since then they have rapidly increased in 
number and influence. Hoffmann's Catholic Diction- 
ary of 189L gives the following statistics of the Catholic 
Church in the United States: Arch-diocese, 13; Dio- 
ceses, 79; Vicariates Apostolic 6, and 1 Prefecture 
Apostolic; Cardinals, 1 ; Archbishops, 14; Bishops, 7;, ; 

Priests, 8,778, of whom 2,354 are members oi religious 
orders; Adherents, 8,579,966; Churches, 7,631; Stations, 



20 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

2,841 : Chapels, 1,750; Orphan Asylums, 218 ; Theo- 
logical Seminaries 39, educating 1,711 candidates for 
the priesthood; Colleges, 123; Academies, 624; Paro- 
chial Schools, 3,277, with 665,32s pupils, while 
Werne's Catholic World gives the total number of 
adherents throughout the world as 230,000,000 



II. 

JESUITS. 

Before much can be said on this subject, it will be 
necessary to give a brief sketch of the founder, 
Ignatius Loyala., born 1491, in the Province of Gui- 
puscoa, Spain. During his early life he spent much of 
his time by reading the legends of the Saints; this 
seriously impressed his mind, causing him to devote 
himself to a religious life. He resolved to bid adieu 
to the world, and after sharing a repast with his com- 
panions, he gave his rich costume to a beggar, put on 
coarse attire and entered the Dominican convent, to 
devote himself to the mortification of the flesh. It 
was not long, however, until he found himself in a 
state of despair, being tempted to return to the amuse- 
ments of the world, but persuaded himself that these 
thoughts came from the devil. One day he met an 
old woman who told him that he should receive visita- 
tions from Jesus. From this time he began to have 

visions. 

i.oyala's VISIONS. 

Sometimes he was wrapped in ecstacy. In 1526 






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he began to gather about him a band of fellow-work- 
ers. This little "company of Jesus" became a special 
militia to the Pope, who recommended them to be- 
come confessors to sovereigns. 

At the death of Eoyala, in 1550, the order num- 
bered 45 professed fathers, 2,000 members, and more 
than 100 colleges and houses. From this time on 
they struggled with the Pope for supremacy. They 
were first driven from England in 15S1 , and again in 
1 60 1, for being conspirators against the life of Queen 
Elizabeth, and still another time for their share in the 
gunpowder plot. They required but a very low 
.standard of morality from their converts. At a great 
council in Lima, they decided it inexpedient to require 
any acts of Christian devotion from South American 
converts, save baptism, except under greatest precau- 
tions; and in China, their missionaries allowed con- 
verts to continue in their idolatrous rites. During 
this century they abandoned their system of free edu- 
cation and attached themselves to the interests of 
courts, and became a great trading firm with branch 
houses in nearly every part of the world. They were 
responsible for the rebellion in Paraguay, 1754, and 
are supposed to be responsible for the death of Pope 
Clement, 1775. 

"By their very constitution, as well as genus of 




AMERICA'S DANGER. 



2 \ PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

order, a spirit of action and intrigue is infused into all 
its members." 

Robertson, an English satirist, has said of them: 
"They were tempted to serve God with the help of 
the devil," while a French writer has declared, "that 
the Jesuit confessor had lengthened the creed and 
shortened the decalogue. 1 ' 

They are, without doubt, the ruling order in the 
Roman Catholic Church. 

The Jesuit vote controls the government of a 
country; each political party pays homage, and even 
money, for their votes and influence. 

Principal Austin, of Alma College, St. Thomas, 
Out., says: 

"There can be no doubt that their powerful and 
sinister influence in local and Dominion politics is the 
one dark cloud upon our country's horizon, and the 
earnest, united and successful resistance to Jesuitic 
aggression on the part of all friends of free institu- 
tions is the paramount duty of the hour." 

They are the sworn vassals of the Pope, their 
ultimate 

AIM 

is to overthrow every form of religion but the Roman 
Catholic, the complete crushing out of civil and 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 25 

religious freedom, and the absolute subjection of every 
individual and state to the Pope. They have reduced 
deception to an art, and their name is synonymous 
with trickery and jugglery. They barter political 
support to a party for lands or money. They are 
sworn enemies of free institutions, freedom of thought, 
or liberty of conscience. They claim that the Pope 
has been appointed of God to do this world's thinking, 
thus they have exalted the Church and minimized 
man until freedom is no longer thought possible or 
desirable. The society has ever tried to check the 
tide of progress and keep the people in bondage to 
Rome. Each member is bound to obey those in 
authority ; thus he becomes a mere machine in the 
hands of his superior, and manhood is demoralized. 

The Jesuits specially defend the right of the Pope 
to temporal power, the right to depose sovereign 
power, to absolve from civil allegiance, and the com- 
plete subjection of the State to the Church. Cardinal 
Manning, the Pope's mouth-piece and Jesuit's defend- 
er, says: 

"I acknowledge no civil power. I am the subject 
of no Prince. I claim to be the supreme judge and 
director of the consciences of men. I am the sole, 
last, supreme judge of what is right and wrong." 
Pius V confirmed this statement when he deposed 



26 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

Queen Elizabeth and released her subjects from their 
vow of allegiance. 

Gabriel Vasquez, a prominent Jesuit, made this 
.statement: 

"If all the members of the royal family are 
heretics, a new election to the throne devolves upon 
the State; for the king's successors could be justly de- 
prived of the kingdom by the Pope, because the 
preservation of the faith, which is of greater import- 
ance, requires that it should be so. But if the king- 
dom were thus polluted, the Pope, as supreme judge 
in matters of faith, might appoint a Catholic king for 
the good of the whole realm, and might place him 
over it by force of arms if necessary." 

These are the views held and propagated by .ne 
"Company of Jesus," and we know of none in that 
company who repudiate them. 

We find this order in every part of the world, 
united by the same design, the same manner of life, 
and the same vow. 

We will now give a few extracts from the writings 
of Blaise Pascal, a celebrated Roman Catholic scholar. 
The following hare been affirmed by Jesuit authorities 
and prove the 

IMMORALITY OF THEIR TEACHINGS. 

i. Doing evil, that good may come of it. 



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" We ma)- seek an occasion of sin directly and de- 
signedly, when our own, or our neighbor's, spiritual 
or temporal advantages induces us to do so." 

2. Desiring the death of another and rejoicing 
over it. 

"An incumbent may, without any mortal sin, de- 
sire the decease of a life-renter on his benefice, and a 
son that of his father, and rejoice when it happens, 
provided always it is for the sake of the profit that is 
to accrue from the event, and not from personal aver- 
sion." 

3. Duelling. — " It is perfectly reasonable to hold 
that a man may fight a duel to save his life, his honor, 
or any considerable portion of his property, and when 
it is apparent there is a design to deprive him of these 
unjustly by lawsuits and chicanery, and when there is 
no other way of preserving them." 

. Navarre, a good Jesuit authority, claims that their 
is nothing to prevent one from despatching one's ad- 
versary in a private way, and rather prefers this way 
— for by so doing we avoid exposure to our own lives. 

4. Killing a man for an insult. 

"It is perfectly right to kill a person who has 
given us a box on the ear, although he should run 
away, provided it is not done through hatred or re- 
venge, and there is no danger of giving occasions 



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thereby to murders of a gross kind, and hurtful to 
society. And the reason is that it is lawful to pursue 
the thief that has stolen our honor, as him that has 
run away with our property." 

5. Retention of unlawful gains. 

"If one has received money to perpetrate a wicked 
action, is he obliged to restore it? 

"We must distinguish here; if he has not done 
the deed he must give back the cash; if he has, he is 
under no such obligation." 

6. Perjury. 

"A man may swear that he never did such a thing 
(though he actually did it) meaning within himself 
that he did not do so on a certain day, or before he 
was born, or understanding any other such circum- 
stance, while the words which he employs have no 
such sense as would discover his meaning. And this 
is very convenient in many cases, and quite innocent, 
when necessary or conducive to one's health, honor or 
id vantage." "It is the intention that determines the 
quality of the action." 

DeGuay, one of the highest Jesuit authorities, 
claims that it is right to defraud the public treasury. 
This teaching justifiies smuggling and illicit commerce 
of every kind. 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 29 

A man may demand secret compensation from one 
who has wrongfully defeated him at law, or in other 
words, he may take the law into his own hands, and 
make the wrong right. 

A servant may secretly compensate himself if he 
is not given as high wages as others of his class, even 
if he agreed to leave the wages to the judgment of his 
employer. 

These are a few extracts of the many that might 
be given, but these are sufficient to prove the teach- 
ing of the Jesuits, anti-christian and immoral, and we 
can understand why they have been condemned by 
both Protestants and Roman Catholics. 

In 1762 Lavalette, the head of the order in France, 
was summoned to Paris to answer for some charges 
brought against them. The order were obliged to 
produce their "Constitutions." When these became 
known intense indignation was aroused against the 
order. Louis XV sent a letter to the General of the 
order at Rome asking to have the statutes amended. 
The General replied: "The Jesuits must remain as 
they are or cease to exist." 

We give a ({notation from a decree of the Parlia- 
ment of Paris, in that year, showing reasons tor their 
request: "These doctrines (those contained in the 
Constitution made at Prague), the consequences of 



30 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

which would go to destroy the law of nature — that 
moral standard which God himself has imprinted on 
the heart of man — and hence break all the bonds of 
civil society, since they authorize theft, falsehood, per- 
jury, impurity the most criminal, and generally all 
passions, as well as all crime, by teaching secret com- 
pensation, equivocations, mental reservations, proba- 
bilism and philosophical sin; to destroy all feelings of 
humanity among men, since the}' favor homicide and 
parricide, to overthrow the royal society/ ' 

Pietro Sarpi,a distinguished Roman Catholic divine 
and an intimate friend of three successive Popes, says 
of the Jesuits, " They are a public plague, and the 
pleague of the world. Chameleons, who take their 
colors from the soil they squat on, flatterers of Princes, 
perverters of youth. They have the art so to blend 
their interests and that of Rome, seeking for them- 
selves and Papacy the empire of the world that the 
Curia must needs support them, though it cowers be- 
fore their unscrutable authority. They are the ruin of 
good literature and wholesome doctrine, by their 
pitiful pretence of learning and their machinery of 
false teaching. On ignorance rests their power, and 
truth is mortal to them. Every vice of which humanity 
is capable, every frailty of which it is subject, finds 
from them support and consolation. If St. Peter had 



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been directed by a Jesuit confessor he might have 
arrived at denying Christ without sin. Expelled from 
Venice, they work more mischief there by their 
intrigues, than they did when they were tolerated. 
They scheme to get a hold on Constantinople and 
Palestine, in order to establish seminaries of fanatics 
and assassins. They are responsible for the murder of 
Henry IV., for if they did not instigate Ravaillac, 
their doctrine of rigicide inspired him. They can 
creep into any kingdom, any institution, any house- 
hold, because they readily accept any terms, and sub- 
scribe to any conditions, in the certainty that by the 
adroit use of flattery, humbug, falsehood and corruption, 
they will soon become masters of the situation. * * * 
The education of the Jesuit consists in stripping the 
pupil of every obligation to his father, to his country, 
and to his national Prince." 

At their first centenniary jubilee, the members 
numbered 13,112, distributed over 32 Provinces. At 
the time of their suppression, a century later, they had 
increased to 22,589, and were possessed of 24 professed 
houses, 669 Colleges, 176 Seminaries, 61 Novitiates, 
335 Residences, and 275 Missionary Stations in infidel 
countries, or in the Protestant States of Europe. 



32 



PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 



EXPULSIONS. 

The decline in the fortunes of the Jesuits was 
rapid and decisive in its consummation. 

It can readily be seen that this order, in any 
country, is very likely to disturb the peace of that 
country, as their teachings endanger the morality and 
patriotism of the young. 

We give table showing the order in which they 
have been expelled from the various countries : — 



Saragossa 1555 

La Palatine 1558 

Vienna 1566 

Avignon 1570 

Antwerp 1578 

Segovia 1578 

England 1579 

1581 

11 1586 

Japan 1587 

Hungary 1588 

Transylvania 1588 

Bordeaux 1589 

F ranee . 1 594 

Holland 1596 

Toulon 1597 

Berne 1597 

England 1602 

England 1604 



Denmark 1606 

Thorn 1606 

Venice 1606 

Venice 1612 

Japan 1613 

India 1613 

Bohemia 1618 

Moravia 1619 

Naples 1622 

Netherlands 1622 

China 1623 

Malta 1634 

Russia J 7 2 3 

Savoy 1729 

Paraguay 1733 

Portugal x 759 

Canada 1762 

France 1764 

Spain ._ 1767 



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33 



Two Sicilies 1767 

Duchy of Parma 1768 

Malta 1768 

Russia 1776 

France 1804 

Eripon 1804 

France 1806 

Naples 1810 

" 1816 

Seleure 1816 

Belgium 1818 

Brest 18 19 

Russia 1820 

Rouen 1825 

Spain 1826 

Gt. Britain.- 1829 

Ireland ---1829 

France 1831 

Saxony 1831 

Portugal 1834 



Spain -_ 1835 

Rheims 1838 

Lucerne 1S41 

Lucerne 1S45 

France 1845 

Bavaria 1S4S 

Switzerland 1848 

Naples 184S 

Papal States 1S4S 

Linz 1S4S 

Vienna 1848 

Styria 1S4S 

Austrian Empire 1S48 

Galicia 1848 

Sardinia 1S4S 

Sicily 1S4S 

Paraguay 1S4S 

Italian States 1S59 

Sicily i860 

Germany 1S73 



Probably no other society has ever proved itself 
so thoroughly obnoxious and detrimental to the pro- 
gress of a country as this; and while they have been 
expelled so many times, and especially from Catholic 
countries, on account of their vile and demoralizing 
influence, the United States and Canada not only mak- 
ing them welcome, but putting the reigns o\ govern- 
ment in their hands. What Europe scorns as vile, 



34 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

America receives with open arms. Here, they are 
making rapid progress. They have about twenty Col- 
leges in the United States at the present time. 
Little can be said of their 

WEALTH, 

as the State does not assess it. When the order was 
abolished by the decree of the Pope in 1872, their 
property amounted to $200,000,000. In Paraguay, in 
1 6 10, the Jesuits set up a patriarchal government 
which lasted for about 150 years. The people lived in 
poverty, the Jesuits in luxury. The people became 
thin, the Jesuits grew fat. When they were expelled 
from that country, the one mission of San Ignacio 
Mini was worth $27,000,000, and there were thirty 
other missions similar to this. 

Gameau, a Roman Catholic historian, of Canada, 
says that the Jesuits are trying to make a Paraguay 
of Canada. 

In 1888, the Quebec Legislature, endorsed by the 
Dominion Parliament, granted them $400,000, to 
satisfy an alleged "moral" claim. This claim was so 
vague, that people of ordinary understanding could 
not see it. The politicians could only see it, when 
it was backed up with good strong political support. 



III. 

ROME'S WEALTH. 

It is impossible to give an exact estimate of Rome's 
wealth, as her property is not assessed, and we only 
get stativStics here and there, and these do not always 
show the true value, for she possesses more than she 
admits. 

The census of 1890 gave the value of the Roman 
Catholic Church in the United States at $118,342,366. 
This report does not include the value of Parsonages, 
vSchools, Colleges, Convents, Monasteries, Nunneries, 
Lands, etc. If these were reported it would likely more 
than equal the above sum. 

In 1850 the value of the Church property in Mexico . 
was $300,000,000, or one-third the value of the nation. 
The annual income of the Church in the City of Mexico 
was $20,000,000, while the income of the whole Repub- 
lic was only $18,000,000. The Cathedral in Lima cost 
$9,000,000, and another one in the capital of Honduras 
cost $5,000,000. They hold one-quarter oi the proper- 
ty in the State of Ecuador, and about one-third oi that 
of Chile. In Canada, where popery IS the ruling 



36 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

power, the Order of the Sulpicians is said to be worth 
more than the Bank of Montreal, which is one of the 
greatest banks of North America. The Roman 
Catholic property in the Province of Quebec is esti- 
mated at S 100,000,000. 

At one time, we learn from history, the revenue of 
the Pope from England exceeded the revenue of the 
king. 

In the United States, it is stated that Archbishop 
Williams of Boston has vested in his own name church 
property valued at $21,000,000; the Archbishop of 
Chicago $41,000,000; the Bishop of Cleveland $16,- 
000,000 ; while Archbishop Corrigan of New York has 
over $50,000,000. 

Dr. McGlynn says that the present Pope of Rome 
is worth $100,000,000. Think of this, protestants, 
the representative of Him who said "My kingdom is 
not of this world," and who, while upon earth, had not 
where to lay his head. Yes! and the successor of 
St. Peter, who had not money enough to pay the tax 
levied upon him by the Roman law. 

HOW OBTAINED. 

The question arises as to how the Pope came in 
possession of this immense wealth. He certainly never 
inherited it from St. Peter, nor has he earned it. We 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 37 

can only partly answer this great question, as it would 
be impossible to go through the w r hole list of decep- 
tions which are practiced by the Church of Rome, in a 
work like this. 

There is scarcely any religious rite to which the 
Roman Catholic is entitled without paying something. 
We will begin with indulgences, which, of course, are 
granted only at a price. 

INDULGENCES. 

This, in Roman Catholic theology, means a remis- 
sion, by Church authority, to a repentant sinner, of 
the temporal punishment which remains due after the 
sin and its eternal punishment have been remitted. 

In the sixteenth century the Church had opened a 
vast market in the sale of indulgences. Tetzel, 
Bachelor of Divinity, prior of the Dominicans, Apos- 
tolic Commissary, Inquisitor, was appointed to fill the 
office of dealer in this kind of merchandise. There 
certainly could not have been a more suitable man in 
Germany than he, and we here give a few of his own 
statements. 

" Indulgences are the most precious and the most 

noble of God's gifts. 

"This cross (pointing to an erected cross) has as 
much efficacy as the very cross of Jesus Christ. 



38 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

" Come and I will give you letters, all properly 
sealed, by which even the sins that you intend to com- 
mit may be pardoned. 

44 I would not change my privileges for those of St. 
Peter in heaven; for I have saved more souls by my 
indulgences than the apostle by his sermons. 

4 ' There is no sin so great that an indulgence can- 
not remit, and even if any one (which is doubtless im- 
possible) had offered violence to the blessed Virgin 
Mary, mother of God, let him pay — only let him pay 
well, and all w T ill be forgiven him. 

" Reflect then, that for every mortal sin you must, 
after confession and contrition, do penance for seven 
years, either in this life or in purgatory. Now, how 
many mortal sins are there not committed in a da}', 
how many in a w T eek, how many in a month, how many 
in a year, how many in a whole life ! Alas ! these sins 
are almost infinite, and they entail an infinite penalty 
in the fires of purgatory. And now, by means of these 
letters of indulgence, you can once in your life, in 
every case except four, which are reserved for the 
Apostolic See, and afterw r ards in the article of death, 
obtain a plenary remission of all your penalties and all 
your sins. 

"Do you not know that if any one desires to visit 
Rome, or any country where travelers incur danger, 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM, 39 

he sends his money to the bank, and for every hundred 
florins that he wishes to have, he gives five, or six, or 
ten more, that by means of the letters of this bank he 
may be safely repaid his money at Rome or elsewhere. 
And you, for a quarter of a florin, will not receive these 
letters of indulgence, by means of which you may in- 
troduce into paradise, not a vile metal, but a divine and 
immortal soul, without its running any risk. 

" But more than this, indulgences avail not only 
for the living, but for the dead. 

" For repentence is not even necessary. 

" Priest! noble! merchant! w 7 ife! youth! maiden! 
do you not hear your parents and your other friends, 
who are dead, and who cry from the bottom of the 
abyss. We are suffering horrible torments ; a trifling 
alms would deliver us ; you can give it, and you will 
not. 

"At the very instant the money rattles at the 
bottom of the chest, the soul escapes from purgatory 
and flies liberated to heaven. 

" Now, you can ransom so many souls ; with twelve 
groats you can deliver your father from purgatory, and 
you are ungrateful enough not to save him ! I shall be 
justified in the day of judgement ! but you, — you will 
be punished SO much the more severely for having 
neglected so great a salvation, — F declare to you. 



4 o PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

though you have a single coat, you ought to strip it 
off and sell it, in order to obtain this grace. The Lord, 
our God, no longer reigns. He has resigned all power 
to the Pope." 

This teaching of Tetzel's had the desired effect. 

The confessors were thronged with crowds. Each 
came with a piece of money in his hand. All found 
money, even those who lived on alms. 

Christopher Columbus, when extolling the value 
of gold, said, 4 ' Whoever possesses it can introduce 
souls into paradise." And such was the doctrine 
taught by the papal commissaries. We quote still 
further from them : " As for those who wish to deliver 
souls from purgatory and procure the pardon of all their 
offences, let them put money into the chest ; contrition 
of heart or confession of mouth is not necessary. Let 
them only hasten to bring their money ; for thus will 
they perforin a work more useful to the souls of the 
dead, and to the building of the Church of St. Peter/' 

Leo X. agreed, with the King of Spain, to take 
twenty-four thousand ducats as his share of the profits 
on the indulgences in that realm for each year. 

Henry IV., of Castile, in four years, received #100- 
000,000 as profits of the sales in that domain. 

Philip II., of Spain, obtained much of his wealth 
through this traffic. 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 41 

The worst feature of indulgences arises from the 
fact that the people were often compelled to buy them 
for fear of the Inquisition, and when too poor to pay 
cash were compelled to buy on credit, when payment 
would be exacted from them in a pitiless manner. 

Pope Pius IX. announced a complete exemption 
from purgatory for all who would take these indul- 
gences. He granted a bull for this traffic, to go on 
from 1878 to 1890, and stipulated the money price for 
this period. This traffic by no means belongs to the 
dark ages, for the poor and ignorant are still oppressed, 
to add still more to the wealth of Rome. 

The Roman Catholic religion is a costly one. That 
which is sold most frequently is the mass. 

MASSES. 

They claim that the priests, by pronouncing cer- 
tain words over the wafer, can immediately change it 
into the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. 
This will be offered as a sacrifice in the mass. In 
proportion to the money paid, is the number of masses 
said, and only by these masses can souls be liberated 
from purgatory ; so poor people will be much more 
liable to remain in purgatory than the rich. There are 
so many requests for masses that the priests ol Canada 
and the United States are unable to say them all. as 

they are only permitted, as a rule, to say one a day, 



42 P ATTESTANTS A WAKE , OR 

So they send the remaining ones to be said to priests 
in Knrope, who say them for twenty-five cents, while 
the home priests get a dollar ; thus they retain the 
seventy-five cents, which is a good commission for 
them. In 1889, the priests of Rome nearly had a 
strike, as there was an effort made to reduce the masses 
to sixteen cents apiece. 

The fee for baptism is about one dollar. Salvation 
can, therefore, easily be secured, if only the money is 
obtainable, for baptisms, masses and indulgences are 
considered essentials to salvation. 

The Papacy grants permits to people who wish to 
make unlawful gain, on condition that they pay a cer- 
tain tax to the holy Church. 

There is a tax to be paid for cheating in weights 
and measures, money obtained through fraud, prosti- 
tution, etc. The beggars in Mexico give the priests 
a precentage of what they beg. We have plenty of 
beggars in our own country ; some .are called 

SISTERS OF CHARITY. 

The Church has plenty of devices for securing 
money. In Montreal, Canada, is 

THE GRAND LOTTERY OF THE SACRED HEART, 

which has a charter granted by the Dominion Parlia- 
ment to the Province of Quebec. 

Another very lucrative business, is the sale of 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 43 

RELICS. 

In New York, May 8, 1892, five thousand people 
paid one dollar each, to see the arm of St. Ann, mother 
of the Virgin Mary. This relic brought into the Church 
.$16,000 before it was taken to Canada, where, no doubt, 
they procured a big haul from the poor Canadians. 

The Frankish monastery of Centula has a minia- 
ture cottage belonging to St. Peter, and some hairs 
taken from his beard, a handkerchief from St. Paul, 
the Virgin Mary's milk, some souvenirs from the 
graves of the murdered innocents at Bethlehem. But 
the most wonderful relic of which we have any account 
is the remains of St. Bartholomew. " The body of the 
Apostle St. Bartholomew, is declared in the Roman 
Breviary and Masiology, to have been translated 
from Benevento to Rome by the Emperor Otto III. , and 
is alleged to be entire. It is attested by bulls of Alex- 
ander III. and Sixtus V. But the Church of Benevento 
alleges that the entire body of St. Bartholomew is there 
still, and produces bulls to that effect from Leo IX.. 
Stephen IX., Benedict XII., Clement VI., Boniface 
IX., and Urban, (all infallible, you know) ; the earliest 
of which Popes reigned fifty years after the death of 
Otto III. Here, then, are two entire bodies ; but Monte 
Cassino claims the possession of a large part oi the 
body, and so does Reims. There are, besides, three 



44 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

heads : one at Naples, one formerly at Reiehenaw, and 
a third at Toulouse ; two crowns of the head, at Frank- 
fort and Prague ; part of the skull 'at Maestricht ; a jaw 
at Steinfield ; part of a jaw at Prague; two jaws in 
Cologne, and a lower jaw at Murback ; an a?m and 
hand at Gersiae ; a second arm, with the flesh, at 
Bethune ; a third arm at Amalfi ; a large part of a 
fourth arm at Toppens ; a fifth arm and part of a sixth 
at Cologne ; a seventh arm at Andeeks ; an eighth arm 
at Kbers ; three large leg or arm bo?ies in Prague ; part 
of an arm at Brussels; and other alleged portions of 
the body, not reckoning trifles like skin, teeth and 
hair, in twenty other places." 

So much for this wonderful Saint, but we have 
account of a handkerchief almost as wonderful. 

"Again, that one handkerchief, with which St. 
Veronica is said to have wiped the face of our Lord, 
thereby imprinting His likeness upon it, is shown in 
seven different places. They are, Rome, Turin, Milan, 
Cadouin, Besancon, Compiegne, and Aix-la-Chapelle. 
Four papal briefs attest that at Turin, and fourteen 
the one at Cadouin." 

There has been enough of the true cross sold to 
make a good sized ship. 

This is a relic business, and from the instances related 
it cannot fail to prove the uncertainty of relic worship. 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 45 

If this business was carried on by the poor and 
illiterate people, it might well excite our sympathy ; 
but not so. It has the sanction of the Church, and 
many of these high representatives of the Church know 
it to be a fraud, and yet they perpetrate them on the 
poor people for money. 

THK PUBLIC TREASURY. 

In addition to all this income, they are obtaining 
money out of the treasury of our country, for we are 
already largely tinder the control of Rome. 

Dr. Strong makes this statement : "The authorities 
of New York, during the eleven years preceding 1880, 
gave to the Roman Church real estate valued at 
$3,500,000, and money to the amount of $5,827,471 ; 
this, in exchange for Romish votes, and every cent of 
it paid in violation of the law." 

Rev. Dr. R. S. McArthur, says : " During the year 
1890, the Catholics received out of the public treasury 
of New York City, the sum of $1,037,186.07." 

This system of oppression and fraud cannot fail 
but bring poverty upon the people. 

POVERTY. 

v 
In Tobasco, Mexico, where Rome rules, a daily 

paper says : "Two out of every three arc held by 

their creditors as slaves for debt. There are about 500,- 

000 Mexicans in this form of slavery. The people 



46 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

often fall into debt through paying the exorbitant 
marriage fee asked by the priest, and another large fee 
is exacted at the baptism of each child, each baptism 
requiring the entire wages of at least two weeks." 

In Ecuador, another country controlled by Rome, a 
man is glad to get six cents a day working as a potter, 
twelve cents a day working as a hat manufacturer, and 
twenty-five cents as a silk manufacturer. 

Rev. N. Roussel has written, from official reports, 
the schedule of a parish of four thousand inhabitants 
in Ireland — all Catholics : "Now, these four thousand 
Catholics own, among all, one cart, one plough, sixteen 
harrows, eight saddles for men, two side-saddles, seven 
table-forks, ninety-six jaunting cars, two hundred and 
forty-three stools, twenty-seven geese, three turkeys* 
two mattresses, eight ticks, eight brass candle-sticks, 
three watches, one school, one priest, but no hats, no 
clock, no boots, no turnips and no carrots." 

J. Semoinne quiets his conscience, by saying : 
" Some ONE has said, that it is easier for a camel to 
pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man 
to enter the kingdom of God." 

If poverty were a pass-port into the kingdom, no 
doubt the majority of Catholics would enter; but where 
would the Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and 
Priests go ? When Archbishop PurcelVs attention was 
called to these scandalous men, he w T as compelled to 
say, — " without doubt, some of the Popes were in hell." 



IV, 

ROME'S POLITICAL POWER. 

In an Encyclical of Leo XIII. we find the follow- 
ing statement : 

"No doubt there are times when the State demands 
a line of conduct manifestly contrary to the dictates of 
our religion. This only happens when the Civil rulers 
for the time being overstep their true sphere, or seek 
to make the sacred power of the Church subservient 
to their own ends. The good citizen will refuse to 
obey an immoral command of the State and peacefully 
accept the penalty." 

To adhere strictly to the teaching of Rome it. is 
logically impossible to be a true citizen and a true 
Roman Catholic at the same time. 

They dare not transgress the laws of the Church 
for the purpose of observing the Civil law. 

We have a good illustration of this at the dedica- 
tion of the World's Fair buildings in Chicago. 

"When Vice President Morton (acting in the place 
of President Harrison, who was detained at home in 
consequence of the serious illness of his wife) stepped 



48 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

forward to receive from the President of the Commis- 
sion the building of the World's Fair for dedication, 
the entire assemblage, together with notable officials 
on the platform, arose to honor him, with two con- 
spicuous exceptions. One was Cardinal Gibbons, in 
his robe and cap of scarlet; the other was Archbishop 
Satolli, who was present as a direct representative of 
the Pope. The latter was dressed in a purple robe 
and cap. While the vast assemblage, including the 
diplomatic corps, Governors of States, members of the 
Supreme Court, sundry members of Congress and of 
the House of Representatives, the World's Columbian 
Commission, and many others, were standing on their 
feet, waving hats and handkerchiefs as a salute to the 
representative of our National Government, these two 
men sat complacently, as much as to say, 'We do not 
recognize nor greet any person as a representative of 
government; the Pope is the rightful ruler of the 
world.' This is entirely in keeping with the spirit of 
Romanism at the present time. Rome claims that the 
Pope should govern the world, and there is no ques- 
tion but as soon as it is believed to be practicable, a 
concerted movement will be inaugurated to restore 
temporal power to the pope." (Free Methodist, Nov. 

2, 1S92.) 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 



49 



ROME'S NEW POSSESSION. 

Where will she gain her first possession? Are we 
alive to the fact that the Fathers of Rome are expeet- 




POLITICIANS AFTER THE CATHOLIC VOTE. 

Uig to have Canada or the United States as their start- 
ing point. 

Is it not time we awoke to the true state of affairs? 

Are we ready to yield our Liberty to Rome? 



5 o PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

Are we willing to give up what our fathers once 
fought for. Leo XIII. says: "All Catholics must 
make themselves felt as active element in daily polit- 
ical life in the countries where they live. They must 
penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of 
Civil affairs. * * * All Catholics should do all in 
their power to cause the Constitution of States and 
Legislatures to be modeled on the principles of the 
true Church." 

Is it not time we began to see what success they 
are having. Canada has a Roman Catholic Premier, 
with three Roman Catholics in his Cabinet. The 
United States has three Catholics in the Cabinet, and 
behind these is a Pope at Rome who gives to each his 
politics. The Review 7 says : 

"Catholics must get their politics from where they 
get their religion — Rome. 

"When a Catholic candidate is on a ticket and his 
opponent is a non-Catholic, let the Catholic have the 
vote, no matter what he represents. A strong medi- 
cine of this kind administered annually will tone the 
nervous system of the bigot and the politician." 

We must give the Catholic the credit here, as he 
votes for principle, w T hile the Protestant votes for party 
and leaves principle out of the question. 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 51 

romk's power supreme. 

Rome recognizes no political power or government 
outside the Pope of Rome. 

The Catholic World says: "We do not accept it or 
hold it to be any government at all, or as capable of 
performing any of the proper functions of government. 
If the American government is to be sustained and 
preserved at all, it must be by the rejection of the prin- 
ciples of the Reformation (that is the government by 
the people) and the acceptance of the Catholic prin- 
ciples, which is the government of the Pope/ 1 

Rome wtll not compromise her principles, although 
she may wear different clothes. We will have to come 
to her terms if we want anything to say in the govern- 
ment of our country. 

How dare the Roman Catholics disobey the Pope? 
Here is what Mgr. Preston, Vicar General of New 
York, says in a sermon Jan. 1, 1888: 

" Every word Leo XIII. speaks from his high chair 
is the voice of the Holy Ghost and must be obeyed. 
You say, ' I will receive my faith from the Pontiff, but 
I will not receive my politics from him. 1 This asser- 
tion is disloyal and untruthful. You must not think 
as you choose, you must think as Catholics/' 

'file orders of the Pope have been obeyed in the 



52 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

past and thousands of precious lives have been sacri- 
ficed. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew furnishes 
one example out of many. 

CATHOLIC OATH VOID. 

We arc sending men to our capitols to make laws 
for us that will be the means of bringing about our 
ruin, or, if not our own, that of our children's. You 
may think there is no danger of this, as all our repre- 
sentatives must take oath to uphold the laws of the 
land, and this is a Protestant nation. 

Well, let me tell you that the oath of a Roman 

■ 

Catholic is not binding where Rome is not a partner. 
In a pamphlet by Dr. J no. H., afterward Cardinal 
Manning, we find this statement made in reply to Mr. 
Gladstone : 

"No pledge from Catholics is of any binding force 
to which Rome is not a party." 

Why do we, as Protestants, trust our interests to a 
people who are our sworn enemies? 

"The creed of Pope Pius IV. is put for subscription 
before every Priest and every Bishop. Every convert 
to Romanism must signify his assent to it. One of 
the sections reads as follows: 'I do give allegiance to 
the Bishop of Rome, and the sense is I do give polit- 
ical as well as religious allegiance.' " (Marriage, page 

12.) 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 53 

"Mgr. Preston, under oath on the witness stand in 
New York, Nov., 1888, when asked if Roman Catholics 
must obey their Bishop, w 7 hether right or wrong, re- 
plied 'yes.' The question was repeated, and again he 
answered, 'They must obey, right or wrong. 1 ' (Rum, 
Rags and Religion, page 85.) 

The Prime Minister of Canada may take the oath 
to uphold the laws of the country, while he has given 
another to the Pope to advance his power. The one 
given to the country is not binding, as the Pope has 
no part in it. This is what the Protestants of America 
are doing, oiling up the machinery, so that, when in 
working order, it will cut off the oilers' heads. No 
one can be a Catholic and be a friend to our free insti- 
tutions. 

MAJORITIES. 

You may say that Protestants are in the majority. 
True, but our majorities count for little, as we are 
divided among ourselves. Rome is united, in fact the 
votes of all Catholics are in the hands of Priests who 
are the tools of the Pope. The Catholic Review, in 
speaking of Mr. Morgan, Indian Commissioner, says: 

"Mr. Morgan turned away from Mr. Harrison many 
votes. Mr. Harrison was requested to call him down, 
but failed to do so, and has borne the COn Sequences 



54 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

That is the way she treats those who are not will- 
ing to do her bidding. Eight million Catholics can 
have a Democratic or Republican government. 

Rev. W. J. Phillips, editor of the Protestant Amer- 
ican, says: 

"With our sixty millions and nominally Protestant 
citizens, we turn over to the nine million foreign-born 
Romanists ninety per cent, of our municipal offices, 
and about sixty per cent, of the State and National." 

ROME CONTROLS NEW YORK. 

In March, 1892, Hugh J. Grant, Mayor of New 
York, knelt before a public audience and kissed the 
hand of Archbishop Corrigan. Rome controls New 
York by a majority of 50,000, and more than this, she 
has captured Baltimore, Chicago, St. Paul, New Or- 
leans, Mobile, Savannah, Cincinnati, Albany, Troy, 
Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Francisco, besides many of 
the smaller cities and towns. This is not all, for the 
power that controls these cities also controls America. 

Americans wave the flag of liberty and boast of 
their freedom, while every day this personal liberty is 
being more and more curtailed by Rome. Rome is 
pleased, and not without cause. 






THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 55 

KNIGHTS OF LABOR SUBJECT TO ROME. 

When she thinks best she permits political or 
benevolent organizations to exist and carry on their 
work under her direction. 

We have only to refer to the Knights of Labor to 
show that Rome rules America to an extent of which 
its people are either ignorant or indifferent. 

Mr. Powderly was obliged to submit the rules and 
regulations of the American Knights of Labor to the 
Italian prelates and monsignori of the Inquisition for 
approval or condemnation, and to accept their decision 
as final. 

The following is the letter of the Cardinal Prefect 
of the Sacred Congregation to Cardinal Gibbons, em- 
bodying its decree in regard to the American Knights 
of Labor, taken from the New York Freeman $ Journal. 
a Roman Catholic paper: 

"Rome, August 29, [888. 

"Most Eminent and Most Rev. Lord: I have to 
inform your Eminence that the fresh documents rela- 
tive to the Society of the Knights of Labor, which 
have been laid before the Sacred Congregation, wen 
examined at its meeting held on Thursday, August [6, 
of the current Near. 

"Having carefully studied these documents, the 



56 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

Sacred Congregation orders that this reply be made : 
That, judging by all that has been hitherto proposed 
to it, the Knights of Labor may, for the present, be 
tolerated. The Sacred Congregation only requires 
that the necessary corrections be made in the statutes 
of the organization, in order to explain what might 
otherwise appear to be obscure, or be interpreted in a 
wrong sense. The modifications should especially be 
made in those passages of the preamble of the rules 
which i efer to local association; the words which in 
the passages savor of Socialism and Communism must 
be corrected in such a manner as to make them express 
simply the right of God to man, or rather to mankind, 
to acquire by legitimate means, respecting always the 
rights of property enjoyed by every one. 

"I am happy to be able to inform your Eminence 
that the Sacred Congregation has praised highly the 
resolve of the Bishops of the United States to take 
heed, in concert with itself, lest there creep into the 
Society of the Knights of Labor, and other similar 
organizations, anything contrary to justice and honesty, 
or not in conformity with the instructions as given to 
the Masonic sect. 

"In confirming and supporting you in this excel- 
lent project, in the name of the Sacred Congregation, 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 57 

I pray you to accept the assurance of our respectful 
and devoted sentiments. 

"Your Eminence's very humble servant, 

"John Cardinal Simeoni, Prefect. 

"To His Eminence Cardinal James Gibbons, 
"Archbishop of Baltimore." 

A letter from Cardinal Gibbons to Archbishop 
Elder of Cincinnati reads as follows : 

"Cardinal's Residence, ) 

"408 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Sept. 25. J 

"Your Grace: On receipt of the letter of which 
the enclosed is a copy, I wrote to Mr. Powderly, re- 
questing him to come and see me. He came on the 
24th inst. in compliance with my invitation, and cheer- 
fully promised to make the emendations required by 
the Holy Office, and expressed his readiness to com- 
ply at all times with the wishes of the ecclesiastical 
authorities. Very faithfully, 
"Your friend in Christ, 

"J. Card. Gibbons, 

"Most. Rev. Dr. Elder Abp., Cincinnati." 

This great American Republic of English speaking 
people, having their organizations controlled b> a 
body of Roman Cardinals. Every word must suit 



5 8 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

them or it cannot be tolerated. No reference is made 
to the Government or to the opinions of the American 
people, for a Cardinal, as "Prince of the Church," 
claims precedence of presidents and princes of every 
nationality. 

"Moreover, the right of deposing kings is inherent 
in the supreme sovereignty which the Popes, as vice- 
gerants of Christ, exercise over all Christian nations." 
(Essays on Religion and Literature.) 

MILITARY ORGANIZATION. 

A false idea prevails among the people that there 
is no danger, that Rome is enlightened and not the 
same as she once was, but Rome never changes, and 
the Priests control their flocks just as much as the 
slave-holders control their slaves. 

In every county and town throughout the United 
States, the whole of the Roman Catholic population, 
of the male sex, are being drilled and disciplined under 
the direction of the Priests. Battalions, regiments, 
companies everywhere are compelled to join their mili- 
tary organization. This organization goes under the 
name of The United States Volunteer Militia, 
and claims that its object is to protect the country 
should it be invaded by a foreign foe. 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 59 

The Loyal American, Jan. 21, 1893, says: 

"There are seven hundred thousand in the cities of 
the United States, an immense arm)', all ready to 
spring up at any moment's notice, and fight for the 
Pope of Rome. Rifles are stored in the basements of 
Churches, and in Nunneries, and they are not flint- 
locks, either. They have been counted, and, in one 
instance at least, by one not a Romanist. They have 
been exported by express companies in a box marked 
'books' and in coffins. By accident they have been, in 
a number of instances, brought to light and exposure. 
But comparatively few anti-Romanists have come to 
know of these facts. Publicity cannot be made through 
the secular prsss, because that is effectually muzzled 
by Rome." 

They control the telegraphic system, thus they pre- 
vent our getting honest reports. 

In addition to their own army they are gaining con 
trol of the State troops. 

Prof. Townsend says: 

"The U. S. navy is already so far Romanized that 
confessional boxes are now built in our ships-of-war." 

These astute and subtile Priests are ever ready in 
carrying forward plots to undermine and overthrow 
bur free institutions. They are good census takers, 



60 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

gathering all the information obtainable of the place 
to which they are sent. When they leave a place their 
successors take up the same work, and thus it pro- 
gresses. 

NO OPPOSITION. 

Eighty per cent, of the employes in the depart- 
ments at Washington are Roman Catholics. 

In the City of Troy twenty-one Protestant teachers 
were recently expelled and Catholic ones substituted. 
Of the 1,900 policemen in Chicago 1,559 are Irishmen. 

Is our country not in danger, and what is being 
done to secure its safety ? Where is the politician be- 
longing to either party that dare oppose them ? Is not 
this moral cowardice contemptible ? 

Many people will not believe when told these things, 
but they will at no distant day come to realize the true 
situation, too late, however, to prevent an American 
St. Bartholomew. 

The following is quoted from a lecture given by 
Rev. I. J. Lansing: 

"No interest is represented by the government of 
this country which would be safe in the hands of the 
Roman Catholic hierarchy. 

'Would freedom of the person be safe under her 
jurisdiction? Ask the Inquisition, not the Inquisition 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 61 

of three hundred years ago, but the Inquisition of 
1870, which enlightened Italy at that time stamped 
under foot. Ask the history of the States where 
Rome has had supreme sway, the papal States as they 
were when Victor Emanuel entered Rome, when every 
free man was likely to be taken out of his bed at night 
by the spies of papacy, and without a trial or jury in- 
carcerated for an indefinite time in the dungeons of 
the Church. 

Would freedom of opinion be safe in this country 
if the Roman Church had power ? Ask the Index, ask 
thousand anathemas of the Church, ask the history of 
the Montreal Institute, the Institute Canadien, where 
but a few years ago the Church fought with all its 
might and intensest bitterness against an organization 
which had for its purpose the cultivation and enlighten- 
ment of men, because they had avowed toleration oi 
opinion as one of their principles. 

Would freedom of conscience ? Ask the syllabus 
of 1864, the infallible word of the infallible Pope. 

When did ever freedom of conscience thrive tinder 
Romish despotism ? Ask the myriads of Roman 
Catholic people who have no conscience of their own, 
but simply the conscience of the Priests for their guide, 
whose ideas of morals are made up on what is told 
them, and who have no more idea of persona] eon 



62 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

science as you have it than they have of liberty as you 

define it. or truth as you hold it. 

Would education be safe in the hands of Roman 
hierarchy ? Ask the countries which she has edu- 
cated. Ask the children of Spain, and of Italy, of 
Portugal, of France, of Austria, and of Hungary 
Mexico and South America. 

Can we trust them to govern the family and regu- 
late marriage ? Ask Chili, ask Ecuador, ask Peru, ask 
Mexico." 



J 



V. 

ROME AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

Ignorance for the masses is the teaching of Rome. 
The Catholic World says : 

" The best ordered and administered State is that 
in which the few are well educated and lead and the 
many are trained to obedience, are willing to be di- 
rected, content to follow, and do not aspire to be 
leaders." Rome not only teaches this but enforces it 
whenever she has the power. 

To prove our statement, we will call up some of 
these Roman Catholic countries. 

What about Chile, one of the most prosperous coun- 
tries of South America ? One person in seven can read 
and one in eight can write, while one child out of 
twenty-five of her population goes to school. 

Truly, this is a dark picture, but by no means an 
exceptional one, nor is it the darkest. 

In Poland 91 per cent, are unable to read, Mexico 
93, Venezuela 90 per cent, and Brazil 84. 

Rome has to rely upon the illiterate people for her 
support, and this is why she so opposes our public 



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school system. Her motto is, "educate afew and keep 

the rest in ignorance." The Catholic World add*: 

"We believe the peasantry in old Catholic countries 
two centuries ago were better educated, although for 
the most part unable to read or write, than are the 




THE WAY ROME WOULD LIKE TO TREAT OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

great body of American people to-day. M This is not 
paying a very high compliment to a people who pride 
ourselves in oitr educational institutions. 

IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION. 

Rome can only thrive where there is ignorance and 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 65 

superstition. I once read of a Priest who promised to 
liberate a number of souls from purgatory on a certain 
night and in the presence of his people. As soon as 
the money dropped in the box the souls would come 
forth. The room was partly darkened. At a given 
signal a little door opened and several small creatures 
appeared on the platform — departed souls. One little 
soul wandered away from the Priest's watchful eye and 
was captured, taken away, and on examination proved 
to be a crawfish dressed up. 

But this is just one of the many similar ways Rome 
contrives to get money from her superstitious people. 

Mexico has been under her control for about three 
hundred years, and this is what Dr. Greene writes to 
Dr. Jas. King of New York: 

''Potatoes sell for a penny a piece, and you buy 
them one at a time, for the seller cannot count two." 
These are the people Rome has been educating in her 
Parochial schools. 

The following official statistics, secured by the 
United States Bureau of Education in [890, show the 

COX 'PR AST 

between Roman Catholic and Protestant eountru 



66 PXOTESTAXTS AWAKE. OR 

man n*t* R a: 

Cat!. ■ Laie ' Illiteracy. 

Hungary [887-8 42 per cent, 

Italy ; x ^;-^ 4S per cent. 

Austria 1SS7-S 39 per cent. 

Portugal ._ i vvs > ^2 per cent. 

Spain : vv : 63 per cent. 

Ireland iSSS 21 per cent. 

Belgium : vv_ 15 per cent. 

restaur. ite. Ratio of Illiteracy. 

Denmark 1889 Less than 1 per cent. 

Germany 1^89 Less than 1 percent. 

Sweden i sv ; Less than 1 per cent. 

Norway 1886 Less than 1 per cent. 

England and Wales isSS 9 percent. 

Scotland : vvx - percent. 

Switzerland : vv_ percent. 

Such a contrast as the above shows makes it evi- 
dent that Protestants should have supervision of all 

ols. 

In some countries but few of the Priests are edu- 
cated, and many of them have never seen a Bible. 
Roman Catholics are trained to believe that they have 
no conscience. Hear the Pope: 



THE POPE THE SUPREME JUDGE. 

'• I claim to to be the Supreme Judge and Director 
of the conscience of men — of the peasant that tills the 
field and the prince that sits on the throne: of the 
household that lives in the shade of privacy and the 

slature that makes laws for kingdoms. I am the 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 67 

sole last Supreme Judge of what is right and wrong." 

His Eminence, Cardinal Manning (speaking in the 
name of the Pope), Kensington, 1869. 

Again, Catholics have no right to think, they must 
be in the Pope's hands as wax, or as a machine in the 
hand of the machinist. We substantiate this state- 
ment by quoting from Plain Talk, p. 93. 

" Freedom of thinking is simply nonsense. We 
are no more free to think without rule than we are to 
act without rule." 

The Church reasons for the people, and they sim- 
ply believe in the Church. The reply of a Catholic 
coal heaver fully illustrates this point: "What do you 
believe, Patrick?" "Believe," said Patrick, "sure, I be- 
lieve what the Catholic Church believes." "And what 
does the Catholic Church believe?" "Sure, man, the 
Church believes what I believe." "Well, Patrick, 
what do you both believe?" "By my soul, sir, we both 
believe alike." 

It has been said "Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly 
to be wise," and Pat's ignorance proves this. 

The question may be asked why does Popery ob- 
ject to freedom of thought. In Plain Talk, p, 94, one 
of their own works, we find the answer: 

" Freedom of thought is the soul of Protestantism; 

it is likewise the soul of modern rationalism and 



68 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

philosophy ; it is one of those impossibilities which 
only the levity of a superficial reason can regard as 
admissible. But a sound mind that does not feed on 
empty words looks upon this freedom of thought only 
as simple, absurd, and what is more, as sinful." 

This is the doctrine of a people who we are putting 
at the head of our country to manage our affairs. 

PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. 

Let us see what countries think of the Parochial 
Schools where they have been, for many years, the 
only schools. The Encyclopaedia Britatmica (Vol. 
VII., p. 712) says: 

44 In all Europe education is passing from the con- 
trol of the clergy into the hands of the State, and is 
becoming more secular and less sectarian.' ' Do we 
want to adopt schools in our country which have 
proved detrimental to the progress of other countries 
and are now being discarded by them. 

Let South America tell her experience of Parochial 
Schools. Ecuador is the only country that tolerates 
them. And what is the condition of Ecuador, which 
is purely Roman Catholic. With a population of over 
a million we find forty-seven post-offices, 110 railroad or 
stage coach. Laborers get from $2 to $10 a month. 
In Chile, anyone sending a child to a Parochial school 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 69 

is fined. The same may be said of nearly all the 
States of South America, while only twenty years ago 
the educational system was controlled entirely by the 
clergy. Why are these Republics, with their 50,000,000 
people, discarding the Parochial schools ? Is it to the 
advantage of the United States and Canada to absorb 
what South America casts off. 

Mexico and Central America have also had an ex- 
perience with Parochial Schools. In a work by Wm. 
E. Curtis, Secretary of the Spanish American Commis- 
sion, we read the opinion of these countries. 

In Mexico Parochial Schools have been prohibited 
and free schools have been established. Any one 
sending a child to a Parochial School is fined. In the 
Republics of Central America education is free, com- 
pulsory and under State control. 

Surely the testimonies of these countries and the 
experiences which they have had with Parochial 
Schools would be sufficient evidence to us to leave 
them alone, but not so. We have them in our midst 
and are supporting them. 

The United States has 4,200 Parochial Schools with 
750,000 scholars. 

Canada has 4,250 Parochial Schools, with 382,500 

scholars. Ontario, the chief Protestant Province ^\ 



yo PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

Canada, has 170 of these schools, and pays $14,000 
annually for their support. 

During the past sixty years a Catholic Bishop and 
his clergy have been supported largely from the public 
treasury in this same Protestant Province. It is no 
wonder that Catholics think that the form of civil gov- 
ernment in Canada is one of the best in the world, and 
no doubt they will continue to think so as long as 
they hold the key to the public chest. 

Father McGlynr of New York, and one of the 
ablest Priests of America, says: 

"The real, true grievance of the Roman ecclesiastics 
is this: There is not enough of their religion taught 
in the schools. They desire to have the children under 
their control in such ways, and times, and places, that 
while receiving from their cradle to their adult man- 
hood, womanhood, a little education, they shall always 
be under the dictation of the Priest ; a venerable mis- 
sionary Priest, after preaching a revival, said: 'Let 
your children grow up like savages on the street rather 
than send them to those godless schools.' To prevent 
what ? To prevent them becoming Protestants. 

14 This talk about the immorality of the Public 
Schools is brutal, beastly, calumny upon the American 
people. Who are the children that fill these schools? 
They are your children. Who are the teachers that 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 71 

are filling these schools ? They are your daughters, 
your sisters, your wives, your mothers, your cousins, 
your flesh and blood. If these schools are schools of 
wantonness, then you are an utterly debauched, de- 
graded people; you are past salvation. 

" It is that probably there is less immorality in the 
public schools than in those Parochial Schools. Why? 
Because there is more intelligence, more decency and 
purity in the Public Schools. These Catholic Schools 
are often a mere sham." 

In a recent lecture delivered by Archbishop Segher 
on the ''Secular School System/' the Holy Father 
is described as "denouncing the erroneous teachings 
of the age," and that his "condemnation falls upon the 
educational system now in vogue. The system con- 
demned by the Holy Father is the one which places 
schools exclusively under the State legislation, so that 
the Church is denied the right to watch over the 
discipline of schools, the direction of the studies, the 
selection of books and teachers, schools to be kept en- 
tirely free from the influence of the Church, to be 
conducted regardless of religion, without the worship 
of God or the professions of Christianity. Such isthe 

system which Catholics are forbidden to approve. 

From the condemnation of that school system that we 
require the education of the youth to be i 



72 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

Education must be preceded, accompanied and fol- 
lowed by religions instructions.' ' 

Rome claims that "Public Schools are avowedly 
religionless, even Godless institutions." Godless be- 
cause the Roman catechism is not taught. 

"Satolli" thinks that it would be a great advantage 
to extend the catechism to the High Schools and Col- 
leges. The catechism comes first, because it contains 
her false teachings. 

Catholics object to hear the Bible read in our Public 
Schools. Some of the divines in Ontario, sanctioned 
by the late Archbishop Lynch, mutilated the Bible, 
leaving out everything that Catholics considered ob- 
jectionable, but even this did not satisfy them, so a 
law was passed permitting Catholic children to enter 
school fifteen minutes late, so they would not be neces- 
sitated to hear even the "Ross-Lynch-Bible" read. 
The politicians of that most Protestant Province are 
running to see who can honor the Pope oftenest. 

Alexandre Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec, 
Canada, makes this statement: 

" Our Fifth Council forbids Catholic parents to send 
their children to Protestant or Godless schools; it 
commands to refuse absolution to parents who, being 
named, persist in exposing their children to this 
great danger. It reserves to the Bishop alone the 



THE DANCER OF ROMANISM. 73 

power to give this permission when necessity requires, 
and he should grant it but with conditions which avert 
all danger." 

Catholics are taught to look upon our Public Schools 
as immoral, and consequently a source of evil. Arch- 
bishop Sesher has said: 

" I denounce the system of mixing both sexes in 
the same school as grossly and monstrously immoral, 
as a blot, a blemish and a disgrace on this country; as 
a living scandal and as an approbrium which covers 
its promoters and protectors with shame and infamy." 

ROME MUST BE OBEYED. 

44 She shall be consulted and obeyed in what con- 
cerns the spiritual direction of the school of public in- 
struction . " — Christian Schools. 

Rome w 7 ill enforce her commands just as far as her 
power will admit, and is working and planning :n an 
underhanded manner schemes that will enable her in 
time to enforce obedience by the aid of arms. 

"SatolliV plans for extending Rome's influence 
are as follows: 

"For the standing growth oi Catholic Schools it 
seems that care should be taken that the teachers 
prove themselves qualified, not only by previous exam 
ination before the Diocesan Board and by a certificate 



74 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

or diploma received from it, but also from having a 
teacher's diploma from the school board of the State 
awarded after successful examination." Notice that 
the first diploma comes from Rome, if successful here 
then they are fit subjects to go before the school board. 

Satolli explains thus: 

"This is urgent; first, so as not to appear regard- 
less of what the public authority requires for teaching; 
secondly, a better opinion of the Catholic Schools will 
be created; thirdly, greater assurance w T ill be given to 
parents that in Catholic schools there is no deficiency 
to render them inferior to Public Schools ; that, on the 
contrary, everything is done to make Catholic Schools 
equal to Public Schools, or even superior; fourthly and 
lastly, we think that this plan would prepare the way 
for the State to see, along with the recognized tested 
fitness of the teachers, that the laws are observed in 
all matters pertaining to the arts and the sciences, to 
methods and pedagogies, and whatever is ordinarily 
required to promote the stability and usefulness of the 
schools." 

ARCHBISHOP IRELAND'S ADDRESS. 

Their true reason may be more readily seen from 
an address given by Archbishop Ireland to a class of 
graduating students at Rome: 

" We can have the United States in ten years, and 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 75 

I want to give you three points for your consideration, 
the Indians, the Negroes, and the Public Schools." 

Rome is by no means asleep ; she has many deep 
laid plans, and at some near future date her anticipa- 
tions may be fully realized. 

In an article written by Rev. I. J. Lansing in 
Christian Statesman we quote the following: 

' l Moreover, the Papacy is so manifestly unfriendly 
to the prosperity of the people that in all South Amer- 
ican States when there has been a revolution, the 
people invariably strike first at the Church as their 
worst enemy. A Priest cannot openly wear his cassock 
in Mexico, while they are fostered in the United States. 
Guatemala abolished both monasteries and convents ; 
we help support them. Costa Rica and Argentine 
expel all Priests that interfere in Common School edu- 
cation; we put -them at the head of our tables and 
banquets, on our library committees, and often on our 
school boards * * * so you note and cannot fail 
to be impressed with the fact that everywhere when 
freemen rise they know their tyrants and repudiate 
them; and the tyrant, which they first strike from the 
Rio Grande to Cape Horn, is the Roman Catholic 
Church." 

Do we want to remain free or become slaves to 



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Rome; she is working plans of conquest while we are 
asleep; she is gaining a foothold while we are losing 
the land of our birth. 

Do we want to be controlled by Papacy? If so, 
we have simply to remain as we have in the past — 
inactive. 



VL 
ROME'S INTOLERANCE. 

Rome has been intolerant in the past, and will only 
tolerate to-day what she cannot help. 

We quote from Plain Talk, p. 174: " She — the 
Catholic Church — teaches and defends truths with as 
much intolerance as the science of mathematics de- 
fends hers. And what more logical ? The Catholic 
Church alone, in the midst of so many different sects, 
avers a possession of absolute truth, out of which there 
cannot be true Christianity ; she alone has a right to 
be, she alone must be intolerant. She alone will and 
must say, as she has said through all ages, in her coun- 
cils: 'If any one saith or believeth contrary to what 
I teach, which is truth, let him be anathema.' ' 

Here we see Rome taking the place oi the Lord 
Jesus himself as spoken by the Apostle Paul. She 

claims to be above all heaven and earth. Listen to 

what llerr Kinkelman .saws : "We Priests are above 
governments, above the emperors, kings and princes 

as much as the heaven is above the earth. The angels 
and archangels are much below Priests, foi we can in 



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PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 



the face of God pardon, which they have never been 
able to do. We are above the Virgin Mother of God, 
for Mary gave birth to Christ but once, while the 
Priests create him every day. Again, to a certain ex- 
tent the Priests are above God himself, for God must 
be at every time and in every place at our disposal." 

How could a Church with a priesthood possessing 
such wonderful powers be expected \o tolerate any- 
thing outside the pale of her own Church? 

Hear Bishop Ryan of Philadelphia: 



AN HONEST CONFESSION. 

We maintain that the Church of Rome is intolerant 
— that is, that she uses every means in her power to 
root out heresy. The Church tolerates heretics when 
she is obliged to do so ; but she hates them with a 
deadly hatred, and uses all her power to annihilate 
them. If ever the Catholics should become a consider- 
able majority, which in time will surely be the case, 
then will religious freedom in the United States come 
to an end. Our enemies know how the Church treated 
heretics in the middle ages and how she treats them 
to-day, w r hen she has the pow r er. We no more think 
of denying these historic facts than we do of blaming 
the Holy God and the Princes of the Church for what 
they have thought fit to do." 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 79 

INQUISITION NECESSARY. 

The Boston Pilot says : 

" There can be no religion without an Inquisition." 
* Rome has proved her ability to put this in force. 
We could relate scores of incidents in which Protest- 
ants were nailed up by the tongue and only enabled to 
liberate themselves by tearing and destroying that 
member, while others have been stretched upon the 
rack and often torn limb from limb. 

The Inquisition has been the means of spreading 
the teaching of Rome, their motto being, "accept of 
our teaching or pay the penalty with your life." 

When several Mexican converts from Romanism 
were murdered by a Romish mob, instigated by the 
Priests, three years ago, the New York Freeman s 
Journal, one of the leading Roman Catholic papers of 
this country, endorsed the crime by a tirade against 
Protestant missionaries, which closed with these words : 
" If the killing of a few missionaries of this kind would 
keep others like them at home, we should almost — we 
Papists are so wicked — be inclined to say, 'On with 
the dance; let joy be unconfined !' " 

The killing of Protestants is what gives them joy. 
The Inquisition is the creature of to-day. Rome is 
only waiting for temporal power to be as cruel as ever, 

Protestants are asleep while Rome is at work pre- 



So 



PROTESTANTS AWAKI^ OR 



paring for victory, and when this is won we will be 
aroused, but too late. 

PROTESTANTISM DENOUNCED. 

The Weston Watchman (Roman Catholic), pub- 
lished at St. Louis, says: "Protestantism — we would 
draw and quarter it; we would impale it and hang it 
up for crow's meat ; we would tear it with pincers and 
fire it- with hot irons; we would fill it with molten 
lead and sink it in hell fire, a hundred fathoms deep.'' 

Protestants, this is what is awaiting us, or if not us 
our children. Is it not time we opened our eyes, as 
we are blind to the intentions of Rome. Roman 
Catholic Theology teaches that it is a duty, when the 
Church commands it, to kill a Protestant if the y mur- 
derer can escape punishment. 

Dr, McArthur, in the Christian Inquirer of New 
York, says : 

"A Catholic connected with one of our city papers 
said to me a few months ago, 1 1 am a Catholic and a 
Jesuit, and I wish we had the Inquisition with rack 
and fagots for you heretics, and perhaps you shall 
have it some day.' M 

Your Catholic neighbors may be very kind and 
obliging to you, but back of this they are your sworn 
enemies, and should the Church authorize them to cut 
your throat they will do it. 



THE DANCER OF ROMANISM. 



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Father Brawn, a Jesuit Priest in Canada, in a work 
highly approved by Canadian Bishops, says: "It is 
customary to regard Protestantism as a religion which 
has rights. This is an error. Protestantism is not a 
religion. Protestantism has not a single right. It is 
a rebellion in triumph. It is an error which flatters 
human nature. Error can have no rights. Rebellion 
can have no rights." 

The Pope is declared by the Bishop of Quebec to 
be the Supreme Ruler, both in temporal and spiritual 
things. Let me give you a statement made in the 
Civilta of March 18th, 1871: The Pope is the Chief 
Justice of the Civil Law. In him the two powers, the 
spiritual and temporal, meet together as in their head; 
for he is the Vicar of Christ, who is not only Eternal 
Priest, but also King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 
* * The Pope, by virtue of his high dignity, is at 
the head of both powers." 

If the Pope .says Protestants have no right it is be- 
lieved and must be believed by all good Catholics. 
Rome's history proves her intolerant. We will here 
give a few examples: 

Dr. McGlynn, a noted Priest oi St. Stephen's 

Church, New York, said that, in his opinion, Public 

Schools were better than Parochial Schools. This was 

his first offense. He next took Up the temperance 



PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

question. Here he greatly offended Rome because 
she gets much of her money from the saloon. His 
third offense was by expressing his opinion that the 
suffering ones of New York could be relieved by mak- 
ing certain changes in the system then in vogue. 
This was too much for Rome ; she allows no free 
thought. 

Dr. McGlvnn was summoned to Rome, but failed 
to go. He was then excommunicated. She will not 
spare even her own when expressing opinions contrary 
to her teachings. 

Here is a threat against the Catholic Herald for 
speaking the truth : 
"Editor and Proprietor of the Catholic Herald: 

"Gentlemen: By this note, which is entirely 
private and not to be published, I call your attention 
to the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, following 
the leadership of Leo XIII., has pointed out the duties 
of the Catholic press, and denounced the abuses of 
which journals styling themselves Catholic are some- 
times guilty. ' That paper alone ,' says the Council, 
(decree No. 228) 'is to be regarded as Catholic that is 
prepared to submit in all things to ecclesiastical 
authority.' 

Later on it warns all Catholic writers against pre- 
suming to attack publicly the manner in which a 



THE DANCER OF ROM AX ISM. 83 

Bishop rules his diocese. For some time past the 
utterances of the Catholic Herald have been shockingly 
scandalous. As this newspaper is published in this 
diocese, I hereby warn you that if you continue in this 
course of conduct, it will be at your peril. 
"I am, gentlemen, yours most truly, 

"M. A. Corrigax, 
''Archbishop of New York. 

WHAT MAY BK PUBLISH KD. 

We here give you some statements from a monthly 
magazine called The Pastor. This journal is author- 
ized by ecclesiastical authority and gives orders regard- 
ing books. These orders cannot be enforced in Amer- 
ica at the present time, but where her power permits 
it they are enforced, and are as given below: 

11 Propositions contrary to the liberty, immunity 
and jurisdiction of ecclesiastical persons should be re- 
jected. 

"Also those which — based on the sayings, morals 
and doings of heathen communities — advocate tyranny, 
and the introduction of that supremacy of the State, so 
irreconcilable with the law of the Gospel and Chris- 
tianity. 

" Propositions heretical, erroneous, savoring ol 



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PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 



heresy, scandalous, offensive to pious ears, rash schis- 
matical seditions or blasphemous. 

" Those which advocate novelties contrary to the 

rites and ceremonies of the sacraments, or contrary to 
the custom and usages of the Holy Roman Church. 

"Misrepresentations of sacred Scripture or quota- 
tions from the false versions made by heretics, unless 
indeed these be adduced for the purpose of refuting 
heretics, taking them on their own grounds. 

" Epithets of honor and words of praise bestowed 
on heretics should also be expunged." 

This is the teaching that Rome aims to enforce, 
and in a country which boasts of religious freedom and 
liberty of the press. Anything less than perfect sub- 
mission cannot be tolerated by his holiness Leo XIII. 

Pius V. is said to have uttered these words: 

"Cursed, banned, in the name of God, the Father, 
Son, and Holy Ghost, and in that also of the blessed 
St. Peter and St. Paul, shall be, firstly, all Hussites, 
Wickliffites, Lutherans, Ywinglians, Calvinists, Hugue- 
nots, Anabaptists, Trinitarians, Unitarians, and all, 
and every other heretic ; secondly, all those who give* 
any succor or aid to any heretic, comfort him, shelter 
him, or show him countenance in any way ; thirdly, 
all who buy, read, print, or disseminate, or favor in 
any way, any religious book published without the 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 85 

sanction of the apostolic throne ; fourthly, all Univer- 
sities, Colleges, and Cathedral chapters, on their appeal- 
ing to a Council." 

The Archbishop of St. Louis is reported to have 
said: 

" Heresy and unbelief are crimes, and in Christian 
countries, as in Italy and Spain, for instance, they are 
punished as other crimes. 1 ' 

From a Roman Catholic paper called the Shepherd 
of the Valley, St. Louis, is taken this sentence: 

" Protestantism of every kind, Catholicity inserts 
in her catalogue of mortal sins. She endures it when 
and where she must; but she hates it, and directs all 
her energies to effect its destruction." 



VII. 



THK INQUISITION. 

Nothing could be more harmless than this term 
Inquisition, which simply means inquiry, investigation, 
but no word in the English language contains more 
deception in its use. 

Inquisition, in history, means inhumanity, hellish 
cruelty, cold-blooded torture and low cunning. De- 
ception and hypocrisy furnished in a mask. The 
Holy Office is the title it assumes for its place of busi- 
ness. With a harmless name, it poses before the pub- 
lic eye as an angel of mercy and justice. 

This creature of misery was born about seven hun- 
dred years ago, and still lives where Rome rules. We 
even have it in America in a modified form. We 
would be glad to omit this chapter, as it presents a 
very sad picture, but by appealing to facts, we will 
endeavor to give you an idea of this Holy Machine's 
work. 

ITS TERRIBLE WORK. 

What shall we say of the Albigenses and Waldenses 
in the thirteenth century? Have we forgotten the 




INQUISITORIAL rORI 



SS PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the revocation of 
the edict of Nantes. 

Let me picture to you the Inquisition: 
You pass through the gloomy entrance and dark 
hall which leads to the awful chamber of torture — 
generally underground — you can hear the very shrieks 
of some of the victims. What terrible sufferings and 
inexpressible anguish ; unseen by any human eye save 
those of the inquisitors, who feel happy in rendering 
service to the Church. 

The victims were shut in by locked doors and stone 
walls, with none to lend a sympathizing ear to their 
cry. Occasionally they were released, and came forth 
from their chamber of woe to tell the terrible things 
they experienced at the hands of the Holy Fathers. 
We shall call on some of these witnesses before leav- 
ing this subject. 

WHY TORTURED. 

Inquisitors in the name of Jesus Christ, torturing 
their fellow-men, to compel them to become Catholics, 
to worship man instead of God. What a world of 
anguish expressed in the one word — Inquisition. Tre- 
mendous was its power. No secrets could be withheld 
from the inquisitors. As a result of their examination 
when under torture main' persons were often appre- 
hended in one day. 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 89 

Prisons and even private houses were crowded 
with victims awaiting their turn in the torture cham- 
ber, which was a hell on earth. Instruments of vari- 
ous kinds were employed to dislocate and stretch the 
limbs of the victim. Even this would not satisfy the 
holy inquisitors, for thousands were burned at the 
stake. 

THE PLACE OF TORTURE. 

A Spanish historian says: 

"The place of torture, in the Spanish Inquisition, 
is generally an underground and very dark room, to 
which one enters through several doors. There is a 
tribunal erected in it, in which the inquisitor, inspec- 
tor and secretary sit. When the candles are lighted, 
and the person to be. tortured brought in, the execu- 
tioner, who is waiting for him, makes an astonishing 
and dreadful appearance. 'He is covered all over with 
a black linen garment down to his feet, and tied close 
to his body. His head and face are all concealed with 
a long black cowl, only two little holes being left in it 
for him to see through. All this is intended to strike 
the miserable wretch with greater terror in mind and 
body when he sees himself going to be tortured by the 
hands of one who thus looks like the very devil." 

There were' various kinds oi punishment. Fire 
was sometimes applied to the feet —again they would 



90 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

fill a linen bag with water and stuff this down the 
throat, or tie cords round various parts of the body, 
cutting through the flesh. 

STORY OF ISAAC OROBIS. 

We will now give an account of the sufferings of 
Isaac Orobis when in their hands ; taken from History 
of the Inquisition : 

"It was towards evening when he was brought to 
the place of torture in the Inquisition. It was a large 
underground room, arched, and the walls covered with 
black hangings. The candlesticks were fastened to 
the wall and the whole room enlightened with candles 
placed in them. At one end of it there was an enclosed 
place like a closet, where the inquisitor and notary sat 
at a table ; so that the place seemed to him as the very 
mansion of death, everything appearing so terrible and 
awful. Then the inquisitor admonished him to con- 
fess the truth before the torments began. 

When he answered that he had told the truth, the 
inquisitor gravely protested that since he was so obsti- 
nate as to suffer the torture, the holy office would be in- 
nocent if he should even expire in his torments. When 
he had said this, they put a linen garment over his 
body, and drew it so very close on each side as almost 
squeezed him to death. When almost dying, they 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 91 

slackened all at once the sides of the garment, and, 
after he began to breathe again, the sudden alteration 
put him to the most grievous anguish and pain. When 
he had overcome this torture, the same admonition 
was repeated, that he would confess the truth in order 
to prevent further torment. As he persisted in his 
denial, they tied his thumbs so very tight with small 
cords as made the extremities of them greatly swell, 
and caused the blood to spurt out from under his nails. 
After this he was placed with his back against a wall 
and fixed upon a bench ; in the wall were fastened 
iron pulleys, through which there were ropes drawn 
and tied round his arms and legs in several places. 
The executioner, drawing these ropes with greater 
violence, fastened his body with them to the wall, his 
arms and legs, and especially his fingers and toes, 
being bound so tightly as to cause the most exquisite 
pain, so that it seemed to him just as though he was 
dissolving in flames. After this a new kind of torture 
succeeded. This was an instrument like a small ladder, 
made of two upright pieces of wood and five cross ones 
sharpened in front. This the torturer placed over 
against him, and by a single motion struck it with 
great violence against both his shins, so that he re- 
ceived upon each of them at once five violent strokes, 
which put him to such intolerable anguish that he 



92 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

fainted away. After this he came to himself, and they 
inflicted on him a new torture. The torturer tied 
ropes about Orobio's waist, and then put these ropes 
about his own back, which was covered with leather to 
prevent him hutting himself ; then falling backward he 
drew the ropes with all his might till they cut through 
Orobio's flesh, even to the very bones. And this tor- 
ture was repeated twice, the ropes being tied about his 
arms at the distance of two finger's breadth from the 
former wound, and drawn with the same violence. On 
this the physician and surgeon were sent for out of the 
neighboring apartment to ask whether the torture 
could be continued without danger of death. As there 
was a prospect of his living through it, the torture was 
then repeated, after which he was bound up in his own 
clothes and carried back to .his prison. .After pro- 
longed imprisonment, Orobio was released and ban- 
ished from the kingdom of Seville." 

Before leaving this subject, we will call up another 
witness, William Lithgow, a native of Scotland, who 
suffered the terrors of the Inquisition in the time of 
Jas. I. Listen to him: 

WILLIAM LITHGOW. 

" Now mine eyes did begin to startle, my mouth to 
foam and froth, and my teeth to chatter like the dab- 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 93 

bling of drum sticks. Oh strange, inhuman, monster 
man-manglers ! * * * And notwithstanding of my 
shivering lips in this fiery passion, my vehement 
groaning, and blood springing from my arms, my 
broken sinews, yea, and my depending weight on 
flesh-cutting cords, yet they struck me on the face 
with cudgels to abate and cease the thundering noise 
of my wrestling voice. At last, being released from 
these pinnae les of fame, I was hand-fast set on the floor 
with this their ceaseless imploration: 'Confess, con- 
fess, confess in time, or thine inevitable torments en- 
sue.' Where, finding nothing from me but still inno- 
cent — l Oh! lam innocent. O Jesus, the Lamb of 
God, have mercy on me, and strengthen me with 
patience to undergo this barbarous murder." 

Hut 1 must not continue this subject further, for 
the picture is too sickening to look upon. 
DARK RECORD. 

The first eighteen years of the Spanish Inquisition 
under Torquemada [0,220 persons were burned and 
07,000 imprisoned, banished and reduced to want. 

In the Netherlands, under the Emperor Chas. V., 
the victims of the Inquisition who were burned, 

strangled, or buried alive, were estimated from 50 

to I <)( ),()()(). 

About 100,000 Albieenses were- toi t m ed and burned 



94 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

to death, 500 men, women and children were burned 
alive, on suspicion of heresy, at one time. 

By the revocation of the edict of Nantes ico,ooo 
Christians were exiled from France by the massacre of 
St. Bartholomew, 70,000 persons were . slaughtered 
without mercy. 

In Peru about 100,000 victims were put to death, 
but we must pass on from the horrors of the Inquisi- 
tion. 

We now wish to show that the Inquisition with all 
its horrors is 

JUSTIFIED BY ROME. 

It originated with the Popes and has been supported 
by them. The inquisitors have been appointed by the 
Church of Rome, supported, blessed and canonized. 
The whole outfit was and is the property of Rome, and 
what she has done in the past she will do again if she 
has the power, for Rome never changes. She respects 
no religion but her own. " Since the thirteenth cen- 
tury no principle or doctrine has been enforced with 
greater emphasis and more frequently repeated by the 
Popes in their circular letters, bulls and enactments, 
than the doctrine that it is a divine commandment and 
sacred duty of every monarch and every government 
to make use of the power that is given them for sup- 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 95 

pressing those who avow a different creed, and to per- 
mit no freedom in matters of faith and divine service. 
The dogma of infallibility is at the same time a declar- 
ation of the divine truth of the doctrine that Catholic 
Princes and States, so far as they possess the necessary 
power, are also bound, as a matter of conscience, to 
tolerate no other but the Catholic confession, as far as 
possible to keep back from official positions, those who 
differ from it, to undermine their Christian associations, 
and finally to extirpate them. Intolerance is to be 
enforced wherever there is the power to enforce it. A 
measure of toleration may be allowed wherever the 
government is not strong enough to withhold it." 

Again, Rome says "there can be no religion without 
the Inquisition, which is wisely designed for the pro- 
motion of the true faith." 

Pope Pius IX. says: 

" Cursed be those who assert liberty of conscience 
and worship; and all such that maintain that the 
Church may not employ force." 

Ecclesiastical persecution is declared in the Roman 
Catholic law of to-day to be a duty. Every Bishop 
who takes the full pontificial oath has to swear that he 
will, to the utmost of his ability, persecute and exter- 
minate every heretic. Persecution is also enjoined 
upon private citizens. 



96 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

Pope Urban II, in 1088, decreed, and it is embodied, 
in the canon law of Rome, as follows : 

" Those are not to be accounted murderers or homi- 
cides who, when burning with love and zeal for their 
Catholic mother against excommunicated Protestants, 
shall happen to kill a. few of them." 

This is now a part of the unalterable law of the 
Roman Catholic Church and flourished in all the 
Pontifical States until 1870. # 

We learn from good authority that this decree, in a 
modified form, is in force in the Province of Quebec 
at the present time. 

Von Dcellinger tells us: "Only very recently, at 
an opening meeting of the Consistory, Pius IX. de- 
livered a eulogy on the Inquisition, and declared it to 
be a beneficial and genuinely ecclesiastical institution. 
On the 29th of June, 1867, Pius IX., in St. Peter's 
Church, which was magnificently decorated for the 
occasion, formally canonized Pedro Arbues, one of the 
inquisitors of Spain, who, for his fierce and cruel per- 
secuting, in association with Torquemada, was stabbed 
at the altar by his exasperated and suffering victims, 
on the 17th of December, 1485. Pius IX. recom- 
mended all Spaniards to honor this man in future as a 
pattern of Christian virtues, and now with other saints 
they may invoke him to pray for them." 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 97 

CONCLUSION. 

It is unnecessary to say more in order to prove the 
Inquisition to be a thing of the Roman Catholic 
Church. 

One writer of high authority says: "The Popes 
furnished victims as well as executioners. Ay, and 
the Church became itself the executioner. No cata- 
logue can be made of Papal crimes. . Even after the 
restoration of Pius IX. in 1850, the horrors committed 
at Perugia by the Papal mercenaries were as dreadful 
as any of the middle ages. No quarter was given. 
The mother was massacred with her unborn child ; 
and when all resistance to the Pope on the part of the 
insurrection had ceased, and those among the rebels 
capable of bearing arms had left the city, the slaughter 
of the helpless multitude left behind commenced, and 
the atrocities committed exceeded the worst ever per- 
petrated by Austrian pandours. Women and young 
girls were foully violated, and then impaled alive or 
thrown from the house windows to be caught on 
bayonets, or they were transfixed with lances and so 
dragged through the streets. Mothers with their 
babies were thrown into oil casks, which were then 
set on fire. 

Yet Pope Pins IX. thought not of laying ban 01 
interdict on the brutal leader of his troops, the Swiss 



9 8 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OP 

Captain Smidt, but, on the contrary, appointed him 
for his heroic conduct in this affair, to the rank of gen- 
eral brigade ! And this, remember, was only forty 
years ago/' 

These are certainly dark pictures, but nevertheless 
they are true ones ; and I only wish that they might 
be a means of arousing every true Protestant to realize 
the danger our country is in, and thus prevent a repe- 
tition of the Inquisition in our own loved land. 



VIII. 

ROME AND THE BIBLE. 

The Catholic Church claims to have the deposit of 
the Holy Scriptures, and is therefore very anxious for 
her dear children to be nourished with the Divine 
Word. They must not receive it from the Bible itself, 
but ''should receive both the text and the interpreta- 
tion of the Scriptures from the legitimate pastors of 
the Church, and from them alone." The Church also 
commands that "only those translations shall be em- 
ployed which have been carefully examined and ap- 
proved by the ecclesiastical authorities. Thereby the 
faithful are taught that what they read is indeed the 
Word of God and not the human rendering of some 
dishonest translator." — Plain Talk, page 114. 

You will see from this statement that Rome docs 
not acknowledge her translators human. If they are 
not human they must either be Divine or Satanic, and 
we are inclined to think that they partake more of the 
latter nature than of the former. 

Rome calls our translators ignorant ami dishonest. 
Why? Because they give us the Gospel without an} 



ioo PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

tradition, and Rome claims that " tradition has as much 
authority as the Gospel " 

NO BIBLE SOCIETY. 

Who ever heard of a Popish Bible Society. They 
have societies for other objects, such as buying cups, 
boxes for the holy wafer, rosaries and crucifixes. 

Many churches and societies are making money 
out of the relics of saints. One society has recently 
found a bone of one ol the arms of the blessed 
"Virgin." There will certainly be more money in it 
than in distributing Bibles to the ignorant. How can 
we account for this except on the ground that it makes 
the people ask difficult questions of the Priests and 
which they would be unable to answer satisfactory to 
Rome ; Catholics are forbidden to read even Rome's 
own translation. 

In 1840 a Doway Bible was printed and approved 
by Bishops Connell and Kenrick of Philadelphia and 
Bishop Hugh's of New York. On the third page of 
the book we find the following "admonition * * * 
It was judged necessary to forbid the reading of the 
Scriptures in the vulgar languages without the advice 
and permission of the pastors and spiritual guides, 
whom God has appointed to govern the Church." 

Rome hates the Bible, and claims that it should not 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 101 

be read by any class of people found in any country 
without the comments of the Priests. 

Leo XII. delivers himself thus in speaking of the 
Bible, "A most crafty device, by which the very foun- 
dations of religion are undermined * * * pesti- 
lence * * * defilement of the faith most danger- 
ous to souls." 

True, the wise Father is right, for the Bible does 
undermine all religions not built upon it; thus Roman- 
ism is undermined. 

Plain Talk, page 118, says: "Verily, the Bible is 
the sheep's skin under which the wolf hides himself." 

Instead of the Bible, Rome has 135 large folio 
volumes and the Apocrypha. These are composed of 
the following parts: Apostolic Fathers, 35 folios; 
eight volumes of Decretals; ten volumes of Bulls of 
the Popes; thirty-one volumes of Canons and De- 
crees of Councils ; fifty-one volumes of the Acts of the 
Saints. All these must be understood and interpreted 
by councils, as they are beyond the reach of the laity. 
To expound them is difficult, if not impossible. The 
true reason of infallibility is inspiration. Jesus Christ, 
Romanists admit, can give a perfect rule. He there 
fore inspired twelve apostles to form that rule and en 
joined us to hear them. We both have a perfect rule, 
and that rule is the Bible. Where is the inspiration o\ 



102 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

the one hundred and thirty-five folios? And yet these 
are the embodiment of Romanism. 

BIBLES BURNED. 

Rome aims to destroy the Bible. In November, 
1S42, at Carbo, in the township and county of Cham- 
plain, X. Y., during a meeting conducted by Romish 
Priests, hundreds of these Bibles were collected, piled 
together and burned. This was not in the dark ages ; 
but Rome never changes; she is the same to-day as she 
was when she led Latimer and Ridley to the stake to 
be burned. Rome hates the truth, and the Bible is 
truth : "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall 
make you free.'' She hates this freedom and fights it. 
The Bible gives us freedom of thought, freedom of 
conscience, and 'freedom of soul. It does away with 
purgatory, masses for the dead, and the traffic in relics 
which are the great means of income for the Priests. 
If these Priests were required to give proof as to the 
number of masses that are necessary to liberate a soul, 
and to give evidence that the soul is liberated, there 
would be no purgatory. Purgatory is the sucker which 
sucks the money out of the pockets of the illiterate and 
superstitious. 

We cannot close this chapter without giving the 
reader some idea of the difference between the Doway 
and Protestant Bible. 



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103 



COMPARISON OF BIBLKS- 



PROTESTANT BIBLE. 



DOW AY BIBLE. 



"I abhor myself and repent "I reprehend myself and do 

in dust and ashes." — Job 42:6. penance in dust and ashes. 



"Repent ye, for the king- 
dom of heaven is at hand." — 
Matt. 3:2. 

"Joy shall be in heaven over 
one sinner that repenteth." — 
Luke 15:7. 

"By faith, Jacob when he 
was dying, blessed both the 
sons of Joseph, and worshiped, 
leaning upon the top of his 
staff."— Heb. 11:21. 



"Do penance, for the king- 
dom of heaven is at hand." 



"There shall be joy in hea- 
ven over one sinner that 
doeth penance." 

"By faith, when he was dy- 
ing, blessed each of the sons 
of Joseph ; and worshiped the 
top of hisrod." 



IX. 

NUNNERIES. 

Nunneries we may describe as hiding places for 
immorality. History abundantly proves this fact. 
Inmates who have escaped add their testimony to 
prove the above statement. They are cages contain- 
ing unclean birds. They have proven themselves to 
be hives of prostitution, around which Monks, Priests 
and Bishops swarm. 

These vile dens are not all found in Europe, there 
are hundreds of them in the United States and Canada, 
and Protestants are doing their part towards support- 
ing them. 

If these statements were not true they would open 
the doors of their Convents and Nunneries to public 
view, but their minds love darkness rather than light 
because their deeds are evil. 

Protestants believe them to be places of education, 
and many of them send their children there to be edu- 
cated and trained for social life. We shall give a few 
facts for the consideration of those who may think 
that these places send out a good influence. 







THE INNOCENT DELUDED. 



io6 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

A YOUNG LADY'S EXPERIENCE. 

Miss Caracciolo, who was intending to take the 
veil, was insulted by her Confessor; this event caused 
her to change her mind. 

Efforts were put forth to regain her confidence. A 
young Priest, who became her Confessor, said, after 
asking her many improper questions: " The world 
has abandoned you. The heavenly spouse opens the 
door of his house to you, offers to embrace you in his 
arms with tenderness, and anxiously awaits you, to 
make you forget, in the sublime comforts of his love, 
the discords of men. Remember, the Priest is the 
representative of Christ." He then attempted to em- 
brace her. She scorned him, and finally said: 

" Is it, or is it not true, that man was created for 
humanity? If, as you say, the family of Christ be 
restricted to this little community, why was the Son 
of God crucified for the salvation of the whole human 
race? It is said that, to be contented with solitude, it 
is necessary to be either God or brute. Now, I have 
not arrived at the elevation of Deity, nor yet to the 
condition of a brute. I love the world and take pleas- 
ure in the society of my friends. Besides, I do not 
believe that you, yourself, have a horror of human 
society ; because, if it were so, you would, ere this, 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 107 

have become a Monk at least, if not an Anchorite." 

A Madalena became jealous and almost desperate, 
thinking Miss Caracciolo had won her Priest and lover, 
and refused to speak to her. 

Miss Caracciolo dismissed the new Confessor, beg- 
ging him to give his attentions to others. But he 
would not, and as a result, on going in the corridor, 
she found MadaHna in the center of a group of agitated 
Nuns. The utmost confusion prevailed. 

In the meantime the old Abbess appeared on the 
scene to restore peace. She promised Madalena that 
her Confessor should no longer confsss Miss Caracciolo. 

" Will you give me your word for that?" cried the 
infuriated Madalena. while the seventy other mouths 
around her remained closed, awaiting in silence the 
answer. u Hold me pledge." 

"Bravo, Bravo," while Madalena exclaimed: 

" It was insupportable for me to see him shut up 
in the Confessional with another." 

Events similar to this are common in Italy. Whole 
days are passed by Priests and Nuns in idleness and 
love-making. — Mysteries of Neapolitan Convents^ p. 161. 

THE POPE'S [NVESTIGATION. 

Immorality abounded beyond all description in the 

fifteenth eenturv. Main innocent creatures, thinking 



,< - PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

they are leaving the world to escape danger, are here 
met with greater danger and deceived by wicked 
Priests. Even the superiors do not know the amount 
of wickedness that goes on between the Monks and 
the Nuns. The same evils prevail everywhere. We 
are giving no exceptional cases. 

In Popish Nunneries^ by Win. Hogan, p. 60, we 
read: ll Such was the profligacy of Priors and Nuns, 
as Llorenti informs us, in the fifteenth century, that 
the Pope, from very shame, had to take notice of it. 
He had to invest the Inquisition with special power to 
take cognizance of the matter. The Inquisitors, in 
obedience to orders from their sovereign Pope, entered 
immediately upon the discharge of their duties. They 
issued, through their immediate superior, a general 
order commanding all women, nuns and lay sisters, 
married women and single women, without regard to 
age, station in life, or any other circumstance, to ap- 
pear before them and give information, if any they 
had, against all Priests, Jesuits, Monks, Priors and 
Confessors. 

"The Pope got more than he bargained for, sup- 
posing that the licentiousness of his Priests did not 
extend beyond women of ill-fame, he summoned all to 
come. Disobedience was heresy, and heresy was death. 
The accusors came, not singly, but in battalions. The 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 109 

number who made their appearance to lodge informa- 
tion, in the single city of Seville, Spain, was so great, 
that the taking of depositions occupied twenty notaries 
for thirty days. The Inquisitors, worn out with 
fatigue, determined on taking a recess, and, having 
done so, they re-assembled, and devoted thirty days 
more to the same purpose ; but the depositions con- 
tinued to increase so fast that they saw no use in con- 
tinuing them, and they finally resolved to adjourn and 
quash the inquiry. The country was found to be one 
vast area of pollution." 

You may think this state of immorality belonged 
to the dark ages and is a thing of the past ; but not so. 
Priests, Nuns and Confessors are the same now that 
they were then, for " Rome never changes." Whoever 
visits the Nunneries of Dublin, Paris, Madrid and the 
principal cities of Spain and of Mexico will find a 
lying-in hospital attached to each. 

Wm. Hogan, an ex-priest, explains the object of 
these hospitals. "The object," he says, "is to provide 
for the illicit offspring of Priests and Nuns and such 
other unmarried females as the Priests can seduce 
through the Confessional. But it will be said there 
are no lying-in hospitals in this country. True, there 

;ire not ; but I say of my own knowledge and from 

my own experience through the Confessional that it 



no 



PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 



would be well if there were; there would be fewer in- 
fants Strangled and murdered. 

44 It is not generally known that the crime of pro- 
curing abortion — a crime which our laws pronounce to 
be felony — is a common offence in Popish Nunneries. 
In Kings County Penitentiary is a woman who has 
been in prison twenty years for infanticide, and who 
is condemned to stay there for life. That which is a 
crime in the State is a practice in the Convents. 
Luther, in his Table Talk, says that in his time a pool 
was cleaned out in the vicinity of a Convent, and the 
bottom was almost literally paved with the bones of 

infants." 

a nun's instructions. 

After Maria Monk had taken the veil in the Black 
Nunnery of Montreal, she received the following in- 
structions: 

" The Superior now informed me that, having taken 
the black veil, it only remained that I should swear 
the three oaths customary on becoming a nun. and 
that some explanations would be necessary from her. 
I was now, as she told me, to have access to every part 
of the edifice, even to the cellar where two of the 
vSisters were imprisoned, for causes which she did not 
mention ; I must be informed that one of my great 
duties was to obey the Priests in all things, and this, I 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 1 1 1 

soon learned, to my utter astonishment and horror, was 
to live in the practice of criminal inter coarse with them. 
I expressed some of the feelings which this announce- 
ment excited in me, which came upon me like a flash 
of lightning, but the only effect was to set her to argu- 
ing with me in favor of the crime, representing it as a 
virtue acceptable to God and honorable to me. The 
Priests, she said, were not situated like other men, 
being forbidden to marry, while they lived secluded. 
laborious and self-denying lives for our salvation. 
They might, indeed, be considered our Saviors, as 
without their services we could not obtain pardon of' sin 
and must go to hell." 

" From the Black Nunnery to the Congregational 
Nunnery is a secret underground passage, so that the 
Nuns and Priests can go from one to the other." — 
From Maria Monk. 

But these underground passages, connecting Con 
vents and Monasteries, are found not only in Mon- 
treal, Canada, but have been discovered in L,ombardy, 
Tuscany, Parma, Milan and other places. 

The Roman correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette \ 

referring to a scandal in the Convent which occupied 
the attention of the Vatican authorities, said: 

"Nearly the whole of the Nuns, who are very 



j i2 PROTESTANTS AWAKE y OR 

young, were found to be as Nuns should be. ' :: * * 
At length search revealed a subterraneous passage 
communicating with a Monastery of Belgian Monks. 1 ' 

Monsignor Castellaci was blamed by the Holy 
Father for having failed to discover this secret com- 
munication, and for defending the Nuns, particularly 
the Abbess, though she was in the same condition as 
many of her flock." 

The Paris correspondent of the London Times, of 
May, 1 87 1, in describing the exposures which drew 
public attention to the Convent in the Rue de Picpus, 
tells how the Jesuit establishment stood next to the 
Convent of the White Nuns, and that the two build- 
ings communicated with each other by means of a door 
at the back of a stable and other apertures in the gar- 
den wall, which showed signs of having been recently 
closed up. In a building in the Nuns' garden were 
found mattresses furnished with straps and buckles, as 
such are used in French midwifery, as well as a rack 
and other instruments evidently designed for torturing 
the human body. 

When E. H. Walsh was an inmate of the Trappist 
Abbey of Gethsemane, Nelson County, Kentucky, 
great public scandal was caused by the closing of a 
neighboring Nunnery which the Abbot and other 
Superiors of the Monastery had turned into a house of 




THE DANCER OF ROMANISM. 113 

prostitution. The Mother Superior of that Nunnery 
had a husband who was in the penitentiary for horse 
stealing. The affair cost the Abbot $10,000 hush 
money, which sum was paid by a neighboring distiller 
named Taylor. 

PERIL OF (URLS. 

Inexperienced girls, full of religious enthusiasm, 
are enticed into these prisons by the specious false- 
hoods of the Priests and their female' decoys, and 
awake when too late to the fact that they have been 
robbed of their liberty, property and honor. The 
white veil is a sentimental disguise. The renunciation 
of the world is purposely made to represent a marriage 
ceremony. Who are to be the husbands of these de- 
luded brides? We are told that " they are the brides 
of Christ," "they are married to the Church." but 
Roman theology makes the Pope the Vicar of Christ, 
and the Roman Priests constitute the Church. 

PRIESTS IN THE CONFESSIONAL 

teach innocent penitents that their sacerdotal persons 
being holy, certain acts, which would be sinful in 
others, become a means of spiritual grace when si: 
with them. We can thus estimate the result oi this 
"spiritual marriage*' on impressionable young females 

who are decoyed into Nunneries in then teens 



ii 4 PROTEST ANTS AWAKE, OR 

Maria Monk tells us 

HOW PRIESTS CAN ENTER NUNNERIES. 

She says: "Among the first instructions I received 
from the Superior were such as prepared me to admit 
Priests into the Nunnery from the street at irregular 
hours. It is no secret that Priests enter and go out as 
they choose; but if they were to be watched by any 
person in St. Paul's Street all day long no irregularity 
might be suspected, and they might be supposed to 
visit the Convent for the performance of religious 
ceremonies merely. 

" But if a person were near the gate about mid- 
night, he might sometimes form a different opinion ; 
for when a stray Priest is shut out of the Seminary, or 
is otherwise put in need of seeking a lodging, he is al- 
ways sure of being admitted into the Black Xunnery. 

" Nobody but a Priest can ever ring the bell at the 
sick room door, much less can any but a Priest gain 
admittance. The pull of the bell is entirely concealed 
somewhere on the outside of the gate. 

11 He makes himself known as a Priest by a pecu- 
liar kind of hissing sound, made by the tongue against 
the teeth while they are kept closed and the lips open. 
The Nun within, who delays to open the door until 
informed what kind of an applicant is there, imme- 




THE DANCER OE ROMANISM. 115 

mediately recognizes the signal, and replies with two 
inarticulate sounds, such as are often used instead of 
'yes,' with the mouth closed. The Superior seemed 
to consider this part of my instruction quite important, 
and taught me the signals. A Priest in the Nunnery 
was permitted to go where he pleased/' 

Archbishop Corrigan of New York is familiar with 
these signs, as he has access to the women imprisoned 
at Hunt's Point, which is denied to even the female 
relatives of these deluded victims. 

There are certain apartments in these Convents 
and Nunneries where strangers can gain admittance, 
but others where they are always excluded. 

DELUDED MOTHERS. 

From earliest infancy children are trained by their 
mothers to look upon these Priests as holy, incapable 
of sin. This leads us to see how easily young and in- 
nocent girls can be controlled by the Priests. 

Maria Monk, p. 26: The writer relates the follow- 
ing: 

11 In this Nunnery was a girl thirteen years of age, 
whom the Priest tried to persuade he could not sin, 
because he was a Priest, wwd that anything he did to 
her would sanctify her. Doubtlul how to act, she 
related the conversation to her mother, who expressed 






n6 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

neither anger nor disapprobation, but only enjoined it 
upon her not to speak of it, and remarked to her 
Priests were not like men. but holy, and sent to in- 
struct and save us, whatever they did was right ! 
Other children were treated in the same manner." 
These girls are often compelled to either 

SUBMIT OR DIE. 

'A young squaw, called La Belle Maria, had been 
seen going to confession at the house of a Priest, who 
lived a little out of the village. La Belle Maria was 
afterwards missed, and her body found in the river. 
A knife was also found, covered with blood, bearing 
the Priest's name. Great indignation was excited 
among the Indians, and the Priest immediately ab- 
sconded and was never heard from. A note was found 
on his table addressed to him, telling him to fly if he 
was guilty. — Maria Mofik, p. 28. 

When a girl takes the veil she is supposed to retire 
from the temptations and trials of this world where by 
prayer, penance and good deeds she fits herself for 
heaven : but she soon finds herself to be the Priests' 
victim, and. if unwilling, a fate similar to the following 
may befall her, in the 

MURDER OF A BEAUTIFUL (ilRL- 
"It was about five months after I had taken the 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 117 

black veil, when the Superior sent for me and several 
other Nuns to come to her room. The weather was 
cool ; it was an October day. We found the Bishop 
and some Priests with her, and, speaking in an un- 
usual tone of fierceness and authority, she said, 'Go to 
the room for the examination of conscience and drag 
St. Frances upstairs.' Nothing more was necessary 
than this unusual command, with the tone and manner 
which accompanied it, to excite in me the most gloomy 
anticipations. It did not strike me as so strange that 
St. Frances should be in the room to which the 
Superior directed us. In was an apartment to which 
we were often sent to prepare for communion, and to 
which we involuntarily went whenever we felt the 
compunctions which our ignorance of duty and the 
misinstructions we received inclined us to seek relief 
from self-reproach. Indeed, I had seen her there lie- 
fore. What terrified me was, first, the Superior's 
angry manner; second, the expression she used; third, 
the place to which we were directed to take the intei 
esting young Nun, and the persons assembled there. 
as I supposed, to condemn her. My fears were such 

concerning the fate that awaited her. and my horror at 

the idea that she was in some way to he sacrificed. 

that I would have given anything to he allowed to stay 
where I was. But I feared the con sequences ot dis- 






IIS 



PROTEST. \NTS < / U \ /A7:\ OR 



obeying the Superior, and proceeded with the rest 
towards the room for tfye examination of conscience. 

"Tile room to which we were to proceed from that 
was in the second story, and the place of many a scene 
of a shameful nature. It is sufficient for me to say 
that things had occurred there which made me regard 
the place with the greatest disgust. 

"St. Frances had appeared melancholy for some 
time. I well knew that she had cause, for she had 
been repeatedly subject to trials which I need not 
name — our common lot. 

" When we had reached the room which we had 
been bidden to seek, I entered the door, my compan- 
ions standing behind me, as the place was so small as 
hardly to hold five persons at a time. The young 
Nun was standing alone, near the middle of the room. 
She was probably about twenty years of age, with 
light hair, blue eyes, and very fair complexion. 

" I spoke to her in a compassionate voice, but at 
the same time with such a decided manner that she 
comprehended my full meaning, 

'ST. FRANCES, WE ARK SKXT FOR YOU.' 



" Several others spoke kindly to her, but two ad- 
dressed her very harshly. The poor creature turned 
round with a look of meekness, and without express- 



THE DANCER OE ROMANISM. 119 

ing any unwillingness or fear, without even speaking 
a word, resigned herself to our hands. The tears 
came into my eyes. I had not a moment's doubt but 
she considered her fate as sealed, and was already be- 
yond the fear of death. She was conducted, or rather 
hurried, to the staircase, which was near by, and then 
seized by her limbs and clothes, and, in fact, almost 
dragged up-stairs, in the sense the Superior had in- 
tended. I laid my own hands upon her — I took hold 
of her, too — more gently, indeed, than some of the 
rest ; yet I encouraged and assisted them in carrying 
her. I could not avoid it. My refusal would not have 
saved her, nor prevented her being carried up ; it 
would only have exposed me to some severe punish- 
ment, as I believed some of my companions would 
have seized the first opportunity to complain of me. 

"All the way up the staircase St. Frances spoke 
not a word, nor made the slightest resistance. When 
we entered with her the room to which she was 
ordered, my heart sank within me. The Bishop, the 
Lady Superior and five Priests were assembled 
trial, When we had brought our prisoner before 
them, Father Richards began to question her ; she 
made ready but calm replies. I cannot pretend to give 
a connected account of what ensued ; my feelings were 

wrought up to such a pitch that I knew not what I 



120 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

did or what to do. I was under a terrible apprehen- 
sion that if I betrayed the feelings which almost over- 
come me I should fall under the displeasure of the 
cold-blooded persecutors of my poor innocent sister; 
and this fear on the one hand, with the distress I felt 
for her on the other, rendered me almost frantic. As 
soon as I had entered the room, I had stepped into a 
corner on the left of the entrance, where I might par- 
tially support myself by leaning against the wall be- 
tween the door and the window. This support was 
all that prevented me from falling to the floor ; for the 
confusion of my thoughts was so great that only a few 
of t^ie words I heard spoken on either side made any 
lasting impression upon me. I felt as if I was struck 
with some insupportable blow ; and death would not 
have been more frightful to me. I am inclined to the 
belief that Father Richards wished to shield the poor 
prisoner from the severity of her fate by drawing from 
her expressions that might bear a favorable construc- 
tion. He asked her, among other things, if she was 
not sorry for what she had been overheard to say (for 
she had been betrayed by one of the Nuns), and if she 
would not prefer confinement in the cells to the pun- 
ishment which was threatened her. But the Bishop 
interrupted him, and it was easy to perceive that he 
considered her fate as sealed, and was determined she 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 121 

should not escape. In reply to some of the questions 
put to her she was silent ; to others I heard her voice 
reply that she did not repent of words she had uttered. 
though they had been reported by some of the Nuns, 
who had heard them ; that she still wished to escape 
from the Convent ; and that she had firmly resolved to 
resist every attempt to compel her to the commission of 
crimes she detested. She added that she would rather 
die than cause the murder of harmless babes. ' That 
is enough, finish her' said the Bishop. 

" Two Nuns instantly fell upon the young woman, 
and in obedience to instructions and directions given 
by the Lady Superior, prepared to execute her sen- 
tence. She still maintained all the calmness and sub- 
mission of a lamb. 

" Some of those who took part in this transaction I 
believe were as unwilling as myself; but of others I 
can safely say that I believe they delighted in it. Their 
conduct certainly exhibited a most bloodthirsty spirit. 
Hut above all others present, and above all human 
fiends I ever saw, I think St. Ilippolyte was the most 
diabolical. She engaged in the horrid task with all 
alacrity, and assumed from choice the most revolting 

parts to be performed. She seized a gag, forced it into 

the mouth of the poor Nun, and when it was fixed 
between her extended jaws so as to keep them Open at 



i22 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

the greatest possible distance, took hold of the straps 
fastened at each end of the stick, crossed them behind 
the helpless head of the victim, and drew them tight 
through the loop prepared as a fastening. 

" The bed, which had always stood in one part of 
the room, still remained there; though the screen 
which had usually been placed before it, and was made 
of thick muslin, with only a crevice through which a 
person behind might look out, had been folded up on 
its hinges in the form of a W, and placed in a corner. 
On the bed the prisoner was laid, with her face up- 
wards, and then bound with cords, so that she could 
not move. In an instant another bed was thrown upon 
her. 

11 Some stood up and jumped upon the poor girl 
with their feet, some with their knees, and others ::i 
different ways seemed to seek how they might best 
beat the breath out of her bod)' and mangle it without 
coming in direct contact with it, or seeing the effect of 
their violence. * * * 

"After the lapse of fifteen or twenty minutes, and 
when it was presumed that the sufferer had been 
smothered and crushed to death, the Priest and the 
Nuns ceased to trample upon her, and stepped from 
the bed. All was motionless and silent beneath it 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 123 

"'They then began to laugh at such inhuman 
thoughts as occurred to some of them, rallying each 
other in the most unfeeling manner. They alluded to 
the resignation of our murdered companion, and one 
of them tauntingly said, 'She would have made a good 
Catholic martyr, ' 

"After waiting some time longer, the feather bed 
was taken off, the cords unloosed, and the body taken 
by the Nuns and dragged down stairs. I was informed 
that it was taken into a cellar and thrown unceremoni- 
ously into the hole, covered with a great quantity of 
lime, and afterwards sprinkled with a liquid, the pro- 
perties and name of which I am ignorant." — Maria 
Monk,, p. 1 1 3-1 18. 

All this in the name of religion. By her devotion 
to Christ, resistance to crime and loyalty to virtue she 
became a prey to her terrible persecutors, and what is 
there in this event that would prevent its repetition in 
every Nunnery in the land. 

SLAUGHTER OF [NFANTS. 

" The infallible Church teaches that without bap- 
tism even infants cannot go to heaven. The hol\ 
Church, not caring much how the aforesaid infants 

may come into this world, but anxious that the\ 
should go out of it according to the ritual ol the 



[24 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

Church, insist that the infant shall be baptized. That 
being done, and its soul teing thus fitted for heaven, 
the Mother Abbess generally takes between her holy fin- 

i the nostrils of the infant, and in the name of the 
infallible Church consigns it to the care of the Al- 
mighty ; and I beg to state from my own personal 
knowledge through the Confessional, that the father is 
in nearly all cases the individual who baptizes it. I 
desire to assert nothing of a character as frightful and 
disgusting as this on my own authority ; I could give 
numberless instances ; let this suffice." — Popish Nun- 
neries ', by Wm. Hogan, p. 61. 

THK BURIAL PFACK FOR INFANTS 

Is thus described by Maria Monk: "It was in the 
/ cellar. The earth appeared as if mixed with some 

whitish substance, which was found to be lime — the 
secret burying place of slain babes. Here, then, I was 
in a place which I had considered as the nearest imita- 
tion of heaven to be found on earth, among a society 
where deeds were constantly perpetrated which I had 
believed to be most criminal, and had now found the 
place in which harmless infants were unfeelingly 
thrown out of sight, after being murdered. " 

Is not Romanism just as degrading as Hindooism, 
where widows are burned and infants drowned in tubs 
of water. 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 125 

Why will not the American people awake to their 
duty. We see what Catholicism has done in Europe, 
and in the same fashion will she degrade the people 
in any land where she has absolute control. Euro- 
pean countries are opening up these Nunneries and 
opening them out as corrupt, while we are taking 
good care of them, and at the same time we call our- 
selves a Christian nation. 

OPEN THE CONVENTS. 

To-day on these shores where no bondmen can he, 
Where fetters must burst and the slave he set free, 
Are prisons of darkness all over the land, 
Their keepers unseen, and their doings unscann'd; 
Where haply the innocent pine in despair ; 
And cannot escape to the light and the air, 
But worn by the vigil, the scourge and the fast, 
Rot into the grave, their sole refuge, at last. 

( )r haply — for darkness is full of such deeds, 
Where stern Superstition and Cruelty breeds — 
The Abbess may live, and the Priest may be found 
Who rule as twin tyrants that Golgotha ground : 
And woe to the Nuns disobedient then 
To the tempers of women and passions of men. 
Where anything foul can be done in the dark, 
Unstruck by Truth'a spearpoint's electrical spark! — 

What! Isn't this libelous false from the i; 

Protestant bigotry's slander at worst ? 

it may be it must be we hope for the best 

But open your ( invents ' this, this be the test I 



126 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

We gladly would find they are homes of delight 
Where hearts are all happy and faces all bright, 
Each Abbess a mother, with daughters who love 
Their gloom as a foretaste of glory above ! 

Yes— let in the light — let us hear the glad truth 
That Priest never snared the fair maid or rich youth — 
That neither the Nun nor the Monk can be slaves, 
Unless they so will it themselves, to their graves; 
Let us know they are free to depart or remain 
Unbound by that life long tyrannical chain ; 
Let us see for ourselves that no treasons are there, 
But — everything open, all right and all fair! 

If still supervision is warned from the gate, 
And prisoners alone are seen through the grate, 
If all that we prize in an honest man's home 
Is secretly crushed through the Priestcraft of Rome — 
Well— Nunneries heretofore have been torn down, 
When people suspected the cowl and the gown ; 
And Monkeries — witness St. Al ban's and Fronde — 
Had better keep clear of the rage of the crowd ! 

— Tupper. 







X. 

ROME FOSTERS CRIME. 

The cursing which we so frequently hear in public 
places is not condemned by Rome, but finds authority 
in the following statement: "To curse insensible 
creatures, such as the wind, the rain, the years, the 
days, fire, sun, is no blasphemy, unless the one who 
curses expressly connects them with the name of God, 
by saying, for instance, cursed be the fire of God — the 
bread of God." Is this not in contradiction to the 
third commandment? No doubt this accounts tor so 
profane language being used by Catholics. 

There is a price put upon sin, and when this price- 
is paid the deed may be committed without it being 
any sin. In a work entitled Garden of the SouL pub- 
lished with the approbation of Bishop John Hughes, 
New York, we find what it costs to ruin a girl : " Those 
who have deflowered a virgin must pay six gros." In 

the estimation of Rome this is compensation foi the 

virtue of our daughters and sisters. Are we satisfied 

with this? 



PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

SABBATH DESECRATION. 

' The Pope claims the right and the power to de- 
cree that the sanctificatiou of the Lord's day shall only 
continue a few hours, and that servile work may be 
done on that day. Merchandising and the selling of 
goods at auction on the Sabbath is, on the account of 
its being a general custom, altogether lawful." 

It is no wonder that there is so much desecration 
of the Sabbath in our large cities, for Rome is there 
and introducing the Roman Catholic Sunday, which is 
mass in the morning, and work or pleasure the rest of 
the day. 

In Spanish countries the 

IMMORALITY 

Of the people is well known. In Chili, out of ninety 
thousand births, only sixty-eight thousand are legiti- 
mate. In Mexico, a country controlled by the Priests. 
the people are being forced to live together in con- 
cubinage, for more money is exacted for performing 
the marriage ceremony than a poor man can earn in 
five years. In Chili the government has taken the 
marriage laws in its own hands, and a couple can be 
married for twenty-five cents. 

Father Nugent, in his address at League Hall, 
Liverpool, Nov. 12th, 1886, says: 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 129 

" Nine out of ten of the girls to be seen at night 
along London Road or Lime St. were Catholics ; there 
was no use hiding it. The Sisters of Notre Dame had 
15,000 girls under their charge. What became of 
them after they left school ? They went into places 
where they got work, and instead of going home at 
night went out with their companions." 

The following table shows the percentage of illegi- 
timate births in the cities named : 

In Roman Catholic Paris 33 per cent. 

'• Brussels 35 " 

Ecuador 75 

Munich 4S 

11 " " Vienna 51 M 

In Protestant London 4 " 

While Rome — the mother of harlots — shows a record 
of 143 illegitimate births to every 100 legitimate. In 
1870 the population of the City of Rome was 205,000, 
total births in one year 4,378, of these 3,163 were ille- 
gitimate. At this time there were Nuns, Monks and 
Clergy to the number of 7,322. An Italian proverb 
runs thus: " Where there are many Monks and Priests 
the people have less morality and religion." 

The following letter from the Roman Catholic 
Times, April 17th, [885, will give us some idea ol the 
class of people 



PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

WHO FILL OUR PRISONS. 

" The criminal returns of Her Majesty's prison at 
Liverpool for the year ending March 31, 1885, discloses 
a state of things which the Catholic public cannot con- 
template without feelings of sadness and humiliation; 
and it is in the hope that our people may be roused to 
action that we place the figures before them. During 
the year 21,324 persons were committed to jail — 12,367 
men and 8,957 women. Of this number 13,676 were 
Catholics — 7,237 men and 6,439 women ; whilst Pro- 
testants, all other denominations, numbered only 
7,648 — 5,137 men and 2,518 women. It would further 
appear that daily average of the prison population for 
the year was 633.45 Catholics against 327.52 of all 
other denominations. 

" The Roman Catholics of Scotland are one-twelfth 
of the population, but furnish one-third of the crimi- 
nals. In England and Wales only one- twentieth are 
Catholics, and yet we find one-fourth of the criminals 
belonging to this class. In Ireland there are seven 
Catholics to two Protestants, and here we have six 
Catholic criminals to every one Protestant." 

In Canada forty-four per cent, of population and 
fifty-two per cent, of criminals are Catholics. In 
Ontario one-sixth of the population are Catholics, and 
these furnish sixty-eight per cent, of criminals. One 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 131 

third the population of Prussia are Catholics, and from 
this class more than half the criminals are found. The 
Netherlands give about the same figures. 

Go into any of our prisons in any of our States, 
call the roll and ask each prisoner "What is your 
faith?' 1 You will have about ninety per cent, of them 
answer "Roman Catholic. " 

This is a dark record for a holy Church with an 
infallible Pope surrounded by a swarm of sinless Car- 
dinals, Archbishops, Bishops and Priests. A religious 
system that fills our prisons and degrades bur people 
surely cannot be a success; one may even commit 

MURDER 

And be a good member of this holy Church, 

In Theologica Morlis^ by Dens, we read : "A man 
who has been excommunicated by the Pope may be 
killed anywhere, as Escobar and Deaux teach, because 
the Pope has an indirect jurisdiction over the whole 
world, even in temporal tilings, as all the Catholics 
maintain, and as Swarez proves against the King o[ 
England." 

The following tabic shows the committals for mur- 
der per year in the country named to each million ol 
population : 



132 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

Roman Catholic Ireland 19 

France 31 

" " Austria 36 

Bavaria 68 

Sicily 90 

Protestant London 4 

Romanists love America, because here they ar 
liberty to lay the foundation of their despotic religion 
which has cursed every land where it has had absolute 
power, and the question now is what will Americans 
do with it ? 



XL 
THE CONFESSIONAL. 

There are millions of poor, deluded people who 
think the Confessional is linked with the salvation of 
the soul. They believe it essential to salvation. They 
must confess their sins to a Priest, no matter how im- 
moral or vile, in order to obtain absolution. 

Undoubtedly this is the devil's plot against moral- 
ity and against the home. 

Father Chiuiquy says: 

" In the Church of Rome it is utterly impossible 
that the husband should be one with the wife, and that 
the wife should be one with the husband. A monstrous 
being has been put between them both called the Con 
fessor. Born in the darkest ages of the world, that 
being has received from hell his mission to destroy 
and contaminate the purest joys of the married lite — 
to enslave the wife, to outrage the husband, and to 
cheat the world. The more auricular confession is 

practised, the more the laws oi public and private 
morality are trampled under toot." 



134 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OA 1 

A Roman Catholic recently testified thus: 

I married a beautiful woman. She was 

a Roman Catholic. So am I. Friends told me that 

my intended was the favorite of Father . I did 

not think that a fault. We were married by that 
Priest. I now find that she is in her heart and in her 
his wife, and not mine, There is no divorce in the 
Church. I am not alone. If Priests are allowed two 
or three women each month, that means that some 
one's wife or some one's daughter is being ruined by 
the devil in the guise of a saint, and who at the Con- 
-ional and before the altar stands in the place of 
Jesus Christ." 

Hear what Win. Hogan, ex-Priest, says: 

" I now declare, most solemnly and sincerely, that 
after living twenty- five years in full communion with 
the Roman Catholic Church and officiating as a Romish 
Priest, hearing confessions and confessing myself, I 
know not another reptile in all animal nature so much 
to be shunned, and loathed, and dreaded by females, 
both married and single, as a Roman Catholic Priest 
or Bishop who practises the degrading and demoralize 
i ffice of auricular confession. Auricular confes- 
sion is nothing but a systematic preparation for the 
ruin of the soul of the guileless and guiltless scholar." 




THE CONFESSIONAL f J Ol lUl N 




136 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

AN HONEST CONFESSION. 

Don Paulo makes the following confession the same 
day he died and went to meet his God: 

11 Since God Almighty is pleased to visit me with 

this sickness, I ought to make good use of the time I 
have to live, and I desire of you to help me with your 
prayers, and to take the trouble to write some substan- 
tial points of my confession, that you may perform 
after my death, whatever may enable me to discharge 
my duties towards God and men. When I was or- 
dained Priest, I made a general confession of all my 
sins. I have served my parish sixteen years, and all 
my care has been to discover the tempers and inclina- 
tions of ni}' parishioners ; there are in my parish six- 
teen hundred families, and more or less I have de- 
frauded them all some way or other. 

"My thoughts have been impure ever since I began 
to hear confessions; my words have been, grave and 
severe with them all, and all my parishioners have 
respected and feared me. I have had so great an em- 
pire over them, that some of them, knowing of my 
misdoings, have taken my defence in public. I have 
omitted nothing to please them in outward appearance, 
but my actions have been the most criminal of man- 
kind; for, as to my ecclesiastical duty, what I have 
done has been for custom's sake. 



THE DANCER OF ROM AX ISM. 137 

"As to the confessions and wills I have received 
from my parishioners at the point of death, I do con- 
fess I have made myself master of as much as I could, 
and by that means I have gathered together all my 
riches. As to my duty towards God, I am guilty to 
the highest degree, for I have not loved him ; I have 
neglected to say the private divine service every day. 
I have procured, by remedies, sixty abortions, making 
the fathers of the children their murderers, besides 
many others intended, though not executed, by some 
unexpected accident. I confess that I have frequented 
the parish club twelve years. We were only six parish 
Priests in it, and then w^e did consult and contrive all 
the ways to satisfy our passions. ^ * * We served 
one another then twelve years. Our method lias been 
to persuade the husbands and fathers not to hinder 
them any spiritual comfort, and to the ladies to per- 
suade them to be subject to our advice and will ; and 
that in so doing they should have liberty at any time 
to go out on a pretense of communicating some spirit- 
ual business to the Priest. And if they refused to do 
it, then we should speak to their husbands and lathers 
not to let them go out at all, or, which would be worse 
for them, we should inform against them to the holy 

tribunal of the [nquisition. And by these diabolical 
persuasions they were at our command, without tear 



i; v s PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

of revealing the secret. I have spared no woman of 
my parish whom I had a fancy for, and many others of 
my brethren's parishes; but I cannot tell the number. 
I have sixty nepotes alive of several women; but my 
principal care ought to be of those that I have by two 
young women I keep at home since their parents' 
death." 

IMPROPER QUESTIONS. 

Father Chiniquy says: 

" How many times God has spoken to me, as he 
speaks to all the Priests of Rome, and said with a 
thundering voice, 'What would that young man do 
could he hear the questions you put. to his wife? 
Would he not blow out your brains? Ati(J that father, 
would he not pass the dagger through your breast, if 
he could know what you ask from his poor, trembling 
daughter? Would not the brother of that young girl 
put an end to your miserable life, if he could hear the 
unmentionable subjects on which you speak with her 
in the Confessional?" 

The loathsome corruptions which are unavoidably' 
engendered by auricular confession should convince 
the people of America that it is a soul-trap of Satan, 
to cause the destruction of female virtue. 

In Antoine's Moral Theology will be found the 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 139 

obscene questions which are put by Priests and Bishops 
of the Romish Church to all women who enter the 
Confessional. Any man who would ever permit his 
wife, daughter or sister to go after reading these ques- 
tions must have very loose ideas of morality. 

DIVERSITV OF OPINION. 

Alexander Gavazzio writes: 

" I was a missionary in Italy twelve years, and as I 
was not severe, many people chose me as their Con- 
fessor after being sent to the devil by others — thus I 
speak practically. I ask you, as good Christian people, 
when, for the same sin, the Dominican sends me to 
everlasting torment, the Franciscan refuses me abso- 
lution, the Carmelite allows me absolution with a heavy 
penance and without communion, and the Jesuit gives 
me absolution, communion, and a very slight penance. 
What is this Moral Theology ? What is this Auricular 
Confession with its so great diversity of judgments? 
It is a farce." 

Is it moral that a young lady should go to unveil 
the mysteries of her heart to a man. and in many cases 
an immoral man? "God alone is the searcher of the 
hearts and no man can enter into His sanctuary." 

In Auricular Confession all is secret, all nndei the 
sacramental seal. Christ did not impose this seal, SO 






14" 



PROTESTANTS AWAKE % OR 



it cannot be divine In many instances this secrecy 
is not kept, a very slight imprudence can give it wings. 
"A young wife in Perugia went to a newly-authorized 
Priest to confess. He confessed her and said, ' You 
are the first person I have confessed.' Shortly after- 
wards the young Priest went in an apothecary \s shop, 
where he met some persons and imprudently said, 
'The first person I have confessed was a wife who was 
unfaithful to her husband. 1 Among those present at 
the statement was the husband of *he lady. The lady 
and husband dined together unconscious of each other, 
but after dinner the wife said, 'This morning I was in 
such a Church and such a Con lesser told me I was the 
first person he had confessed.' Hearing her, the poor 
husband, blinded by jealousy and a sense of outraged 
honor, took a knife and immediately killed her." 

The Confessor may intend to keep silent, but he is 
only human and has human infirmities. In the delir- 
ium of fever he may speak, and has often been known 
to speak of the events of the da}'. Some have repeated 
verbatim the confessions made to them. 



XII. 

ROME AND WHISKEY. 

Drunkenness is not a sin in the eyes of Rome, for 
their Priests will administer the sacraments to drunk- 
ards before death, assure them of absolution, and pro- 
claim that they have a direct passage to heaven. In 
Oct., 1883, New York, a murderer before execution, 
cried for whiskey, even after he had partaken of the 
Eucharist. He went to his death in a besotted condi- 
tion, but was proclaimed saved by Romanism. 

Priests are known to drink to excess, and some oi 
them have had delirium tremens. 

Signori says: "Among the Priests who live in the 
world it is rare — and very rare — to find any that are 
good." 

From an article written 1))' Bishop Ireland oi St. 
Paul, Minn., published in the Catholic Worlds Oct., 
1S90, we note the following: 

CONFESSION, 

" Let me speak as a Catholic. I know well that I 

will be blamed for my rashness and credited with un- 
pardonable exaggerations, and may be with untruths. 



i 4 2 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

But speak I will, and let me be called as Theobald 
Matthew was, a fanatic and a madman. Intemperance 
to-day is doing our Holy Church harm beyond the 

power oi the pen to describe, and unless we crush it 
our Catholicity can make but slow advance in America. 
I would say intemperance is our one misfortune. 
With all other difficulty we can easily cope, and cope 
successfully. Intemperances, as nothing else, paralyzes 
our forces, awakens in the minds of our non-Catholic 
fellow citizens violent prejudices against us, and ea^t> 
over all the priceless treasures of truth and grace 
which the Church carries in her bosom, an impene- 
trable veil of darkness. 

Xeed I particularize ? Catholie> nearly monopolize 
the liquor traffic : Catholics loom up before the crimi- 
nal courts of the land, under the charge of drunken- 
ness, in undue majorities ; poor-houses and asylums 
are thronged with Catholics, the immediate or mediate 
victims of drink ; the poverty, the sin. the shame that 
fall upon our people result almost entirely from drink, 
and. God knows, those afflictions come upon them 
thick and heavy."' 

The great reason in the above for doing away with 
intemperance is that non-Catholics may not be preju- 
diced against them. The Catholic Review criticised 
Archbishop Ireland's remark, which they would not 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 143 

have done had the)' not had his ecclesiastical superior 
on their side. We find this statement: ''Notwith- 
standing the facts put forward by Archbishop Ireland, 
few will consider it desirable that the nations should 
become supporters of his drinking creed." 

We will now quote from Father Elliot of New York. 
In an article published in the Catholic World for Sept., 
1890, he says: "In man)' cities, big and little, we 
have something like a monopoly of the business of 
selling liquor, and in not a few something equivalent 
to a monopoly of getting drunk. Scarcely a Roman 
Catholic family among us but mourns one or other of 
its members as a victim of intemperance. This is 
lamentable. I hate to acknowledge it. Yet from 
Catholie domiciles — miscalled homes — in those cities 
and towns three-fourths of the public paupers creep 
annually to the almshouses, and more than half the 
criminals snatched away by police to prison are by 
baptism and training members of our Church. Can 
anyone deny this? Or can any one deny that the 
identity of nominal Catholicity and pauperism existing 
in our chief centers of population is owing to the 
drunkenness of Roman Catholics? This detestable 
vice has been a veritable beast in the vineyard of the 
Lord, making its lair in the very precinct ol the build 
ings containing the confessional and the altar. 1 will 



i 4 4 PROTEST. \NTS - 1 \\\ \KE, OR 

give you an example. For twenty years the clergy of 
the parish of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, have 
had a hard and uneven fight to keep saloons from the 
very Church door, because the neighborhood of a 
Roman Catholic Church is a good stand for the saloon 
business ; and this is equally so in nearly every city in 
America. Who has not burned with shame to run the 
gauntlet of the saloons lining the way to the Roman 
Catholic cemetery ? 

Whether it be the christening of the infant or the 
burial of the dead, the attendance at the ordinary Sun- 
day mass or the celebrating of such feasts as Christ- 
mas and New Year's and St. Patrick's day, the weak- 
ness and the degradation of our people has yoked reli- 
gion and love of country and kindred, the two most 
elevated sentiments of our nature, to the chariots of 
the god Gambrinus and the god Bacchus, whose wheels 
crush down into hell a thousand fold more victims 
than ever perished under the wheels of Juggernaut. 

" How can you expect conversions," demands 
Canon Murname in his paper read to the Catholic 
Truth Conference at Birmingham, "how can you ex- 
pect conversions when a Roman Catholic prison chap- 
lain can assert that of six or seven thousand women 
brought into the prison yearly, more than eighty per 
cent, are Catholics. " 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 145 

ENCOURAGING INTEMPERANCE. 

There are but few Priests who are really interested 
in temperance work, and who can they blame for this 
great evil of which Mr. Elliot speaks but the Church, 
who is the mother of drunkards and puts forth no real 
effort to rescue them. 

Miss Cusack (or the Nun of Kenmare), says: 

" Rome has allowed her devoted and long-suffering 

Irish children to become slaves to the curse of strong 
drink without one vigorous effort being put forth to 
save them. Rome could put an end to the drunken- 
ness in her communion to-morrow if she gave one-half 
as much attention to the subject of suppression of the 
liquor traffic as she has recently done to the prohibi- 
tion of the Bible in the Public Schools. * * 
How could they offend the faithful saloonkeepers, the 
very bone and sinew of the Church, the men who 
make mayors for the first city in the world, the men 
who have a few dollars always ready for the Priest ami 
tlie vSister ? 

No matter if these dollars were reeking with the 
blood of their victims. No matter if these dollars 
were the life-blood of the poor. No matter if these 
dollars were the price of immortal souls. The} were 
dollars all the same. Rome is at best indifferent to the 



146 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

subject of intemperance, I might say more with per- 
fect truth. I might say that Rome encourages intem- 
perance, for she certainly does when she sets the seal 
of her approval on those who devote their best ener- 
gies to the cause of intemperance. She does not deny 
Church membership to drunkards, nor Christian burial 
to those who have been guilty of the most atrocious 
crimes committed under the influence of drink." 

A writer in the Primitive Catholic says: 

11 She has a specified provision in her mission book 
for regulating the conscience of rumsellers, a confes- 
sional formula providing for adulterated liquors up to 
a grade which seems to be entirely left to the good 
taste or judgment of the Confessor ; and also for Sab- 
bath desecration, outside the hours of Romish worship/' 

In 1888 Rome bestowed extreme unction on the 
well-known drunkard, gambler and prize fighter, John 
L,. Sullivan. The only requisite to be a good Catholic 
is to give the Priest the key to your pocketbook. 

ROME'S POLICY. 

The Wine and Spirit Gazette says : 

44 The policy of the Roman Catholic on the liquor 
question, which is modeled after the principle laid 
down in the gospel of Christ, has been a liberal one from 



THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 147 

times immemorial. It is but lately that the spirit of 
intolerance has taken possession of a certain section of 
the Catholic Church of this country. There can be no 
doubt that the doctrine of intolerance put forth by the 
Baltimore Council did not find a responsive echo in 
the breasts of the great mass of Catholics in this coun- 
try." 

SALOONS CONTROL OUR CITIES. 

The whiskey element know Rome too well to be 
alarmed at any little temperance movement that she 
puts forth. Rome must have the saloon in order to 
gain the power she is seeking. A recently elected 
Irish Alderman in Chicago said shortly before his elec- 
tion : " I have 750 saloons at my back. The people 
of the Nineteenth ward are a people governed by the 
saloons and not by the press. I am as good as elected 
now." 

Rev. Richard Harcout has said : 

"Of 8,034 persons engaged in the liquor traffic in 
Philadelphia 6,418 had been arrested for some crime. 
The most immoral centers of New York City are the 
liquor saloons, and yet nine-tenths of these are run by 
members of the Roman Catholic Church." 

Archbishop Corrigan is now practically the Mayor 
ol New York. New York is no exception, for all of 



i js PROTEST. INTS A W* \KE, OR 

our leading cities ars controlled by Rome and whiskey, 

and as a result arc becoming more and more corrupt. 
And what are Protestants doing to prevent it ? Nothing. 

Prof. A. I). White says: 

" Without the slightest exaggeration we may assert 
that, with very few exceptions, the city governments 
of the United States are the very worst in Christen- 
dom, the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the 
most corrupt." 

TEMPERANCE SCIETIES. 

True, Catholics may have temperance societies, but 
they are only temperance societies in name, for they 
prove by their actions that they are not in favor with 
temperance. 

At a Convention of the Catholic Young Men's 
Union the following resolution was twice proposed 
and twice voted down : 

" That the Catholic Young Men's National Union, 
viewing the saloon as pre-eminently the source of evil 
to young men, will use its utmost influence and urge 
upon the societies connected with it to use their utmost 
efforts to prevent Catholic young men from visiting 
saloons, and also to discontinue, by all means, the 
drinking custom of society." 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 149 

When a Roman Catholic Temperance Convention 
deliberately refused to support such a resolution as 
this, the less we depend 'upon Rome's temperance 
work the better. 

Rome's political power and the saloon must stand 
or fall together, for she must have the support of the 
saloon in order to gain temporal power which is Rome's 
true aim. 

Christ said, "My kingdom is not of this world," 
Rome says " We cannot carry on the Master's wor-k 
without the possession of a temporal kingdom," and 
the Pope is the Master's representative. Is not this 
mockery ? 



XIII. 

THE WORSHIP OF SAINTS. 

In the Glory of Mary, a standard Roman Catholic 
work, the writer says: 

" It is the w T ill of God that all graces should come 
to us at the hands of Mary. * * * God, to glorify 
the Mother of the Redeemer, has so determined and 
disposed that of the great charity she would intercede 
in behalf of all those for whom his divine Son paid 
and offered the superabundant price of His precious 
blood in which alone is our salvation, life and resur- 
rection.'' 

St. Bona venture says : 

11 That those who make a point announcing to 
others the glories of Mary are certain of Heaven/' 

St Lawrence declares that "To honor this queen of 
angels is to gain eternal life." 

The Albert Arnold of Charities has made this state- 
ment : "Since the flesh of Mary was not different 
from that of Jesus, how can the royal dignity of the 
Son be denied to another? Hence we must consider 
the glory of the Son, not only as being common to, 
but as one with that of his mother. 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 151 

" If Jesus is the king of the universe, Mary is also 
its queen, and as queen she possesses by right the 
whole kingdom of her Son. 

4< Whoever asks and expects to obtain graces with- 
out the intercession of Mary, endeavor to fly without 
wings. Whenever the most sacred Virgin goes to 
God to intercede for us, she, as queen, commands all 
the angels and saints to accompany her, and unite 
their prayers with hers. 

" For God at the prayers of Mary, forgives the 
crimes of enemies." 

IDOLATROUS WORSHIP. 

We might quote many more passages similar to 
these, but consider these sufficient to prove that Rome 
substitutes Mary for Christ and thus rejects the corner 
stone on which the true Church is built. She refuses 
to recognize Jesus Christ as the author of our salva- 
tion, while there, is no other name under Heaven 
among men whereby we must be saved. 

We now (j note from this same wonderful book — ■ 
iilory of Mary — one of the miracles performed by Mary, 

' Our advocate (the Virgin Mary) has shown how 
great is her kindness towards sinners by her mercy to 
Beatrix, a Nun in the Monaster) of Pontebialdo. This 
unhappy Nun, having contracted a passion for a cer- 
tain youth, agreed to flee with him from the Convent; 



i 5 2 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

and, in fact, she went one day before a statue of the 
blessed Virgin, there deposited the keys of the Monas- 
ter)' — for she was portress — and boldly departed. 
Arrived in another country, she led the miserable life 
of a prostitute for fifteen years. It happened that she 
met, one day, the agent of the Monastery in the city 
where she was living, and asked him, thinking he 
would not recognize her again, if he knew Sister 
Beatrice? 'I know her well,' he said, 'she is a holy 
Nun, and at present is Mistress of Novices.' 

"At this intelligence she was confounded and 
amazed, not knowing how to understand it. In order 
to ascertain the truth, she put on another dress and 
went to the Monastery. She asked for Sister Beatrice, 
and, behold ! the most hoi)' Virgin appeared before her 
in the form of that same image to which, at parting, 
she had committed her keys and her dress. 

"And the divine Mother spoke thus: ' Beatrice, be 
it known to thee that, in order to prevent thy disgrace, 
I assumed thy form, and have filled thy office for the 
fifteen years that thou hast lived far from the Monas- 
tery and God. My child, return and do penance; for 
my Son is still waiting for thee; and strive by thy holy 
life to preserve the good name I have gained thee.' 

" She spoke thus and disappeared. Beatrice re- 
entered the Nunnery, and gratified for the mercy of 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 



*53 



Mary, led the life of a saint. At her death she made 
known the foregoing incident, to the glory of this 
great Queen." 

Rome' a idolatry has brought her into a most deplor- 
able condition and intellectual depravity. Sinners are 
assured that " Mary is the door of heaven, the only 
foundation of salvation, the only hope of sinners." 

This is the teaching — not of pagan Rome — but of 
Rome as she exists to-day. 

BLASPHEMY. 

Many of us have noticed in Papal Churches under 
the painting of the Virgin Mary, "Come unto me all 
ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you 
rest." " He that believeth in me shall never die." 
By these misrepresentations the poor deluded Catholics 
are made to believe that these passages of Scripture 
refer to Mary and not to Christ. 

Signori says: "Nuns ought to have a special de- 
votion towards 

ST. JOSEPH, 

Their guardian angel and their tutelary saint." 

In 1890 Pope Leo sent to his Church by the Bishops 
to the Priests, the formula of a prayer to St. Joseph. 

These Pastors were to call the attention ol the tloek to 
it. It reads as follows: 



i54 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

" To thee, () Blessed Joseph, do we fly in our tribu- 
lation, and after imploring the help of the most holy 
spouse, we ask confidentially for thy protection. We 
beseech thee by that affection which united thee with 
the immaculate mother of God and by the paternal 
love with which thou hast encircled the child Jesus, 
and suppliant we pray that thou mayest regard with 
benignant eye the heritage which Jesus Christ has 
won by blood, and that thou mayest aid us in our 
necessities by thy power and help. 

11 Protect, O Most Provident Guardian of the Divine 
Family, the elect race of Jesus Christ; banish from us, 
O most loving Father, all plague of error and corrup- 
tion ; do thou, our strongest support assist us from the 
height of heaven with thy efficacious help in this 
struggle with the powers of darkness, and, as formerly 
thou didst rescue the child Jesus from the greatest 
danger of His life, so now defend the Holy Church of 
God from all adversity, and cover each one of us with 
thy lasting protection, so that following thy example, 
and supported by thy help, we may be able to live 
holy, die piously, and obtain eternal life in heaven. 
Amen." 

Is not this blasphemy, and yet we believe that many 
of these Priests are honest and sincere in their awful 
error. Let us pity them and pray for them that God 



THE DANCER OE ROMANISM. 155 

may open their eyes to see their works of unrighteous- 
ness. 



XIV. 

ROME'S CHARITY. 

The religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church 
are bound by the vow of poverty. This vow simply 
means that as long as Monks and Nuns live in obe- 
dience to the Pope they shall be supplied with the ver\ 
best, even all the delicacies of the season. Now, while 
these are living in luxury, the question naturally 
arises, what are they doing for the poor ? 

In answer to this question we refer to a lecture 
delivered by Father McGlynn of New York, Feb. 3, 
[889, subject being 

THE CHURCH AND THE poor. 

11 What has the Church done for the poor? What 
is the Church doing for the poor? There was a time 
when the Christian Church in the spirit of the Mastei 

went out into the world and preached the glad tidings 

to tlie poor, to the serf, to women enslaved by men. to 



i 5 6 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

the masses of mankind. She taught her ministers to 
be solicitous, not for themselves, but for the Kingdom 
of Christ ; and she taught them to go forth into the 
high-ways and by-ways, and by a special and intense 
predilection to gather up the waifs and strays : frag- 
ments of Christ's precious humanity, the poor, the 
blind, the halt, the outcast, the insane. This was the 
special mission of those whom Christ sent to preach 
the glad tidings to the poorest of the poor. 

" The doing of charity to the poor, the feeding of 
the hungry, the giving shelter to the blind and the 
halt, were precious, not merely because of the unspeak- 
able sacreduess of each individual, but still more be- 
cause it established the wonderful sanctity and dignity 
of universal human nature represented in each one of 
its individuals; because it showed how Christ's spirit 
would give shelter, would give comfort to every one; 
while these gentry have established the belief that the 
idea of the Christian commonwealth would be substan- 
tially that of a great workhouse or poorhouse. 

CHURCH AND STATE. 

" The work of the Roman Catholic Church among 
the poor has come to be just that. On account of the 
unfortunate union of Church and State, the undue en- 
riching of the Church, the mere administration of 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 157 

ecclesiavStical charities has become corrupt, and an un- 
due proportion of the good things that were supposed 
to be for the poor have gone to the benefit of the ad- 
ministrators rather than to the originally intended 
beneficiaries, and the charity itself has very often be- 
come a mischief rather than a benefit, for it had en- 
couraged idleness, shiftlessness, on the part of the 
privileged inmates of these institutions, and has to that 
degree discouraged thrift, enterprise, individual respon- 
sibility. * * * Some years since a few pious 
women desired to invite the Sisters of the Good 
Shepherd to this city to care for the Magdalens, but 
they were opposed in their Christ-like project by the 
Archbishop of New York. A good old lady, the 
matron of the Tombs, .who was not a Catholic, but a 
north of Ireland Presbyterian, heard with delight that 
the Sisters were coming. 

" She had abundant experience as matron ol the 
city prison of the need of just such a refuge, and she 
said to a priest who was in the habit of visiting the 
prison that she was so delighted that she had made up 
a very respectable purse from among her friends in 
order to help the work. 'But/ said the Priest, the 
Archbishop says that he does not favor this charity ; 

the Archbishop is opposed to it; in fact, the Arch- 
bishop says he does not believe in tlie conversion 01 



isS PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

these people/ Whereupon old Airs. Forster said, 
Well, but even if the poor creatures happen to fall 
again, would it not be a blessed thing, a most Christian 
thing, even to stop sin for a time?" This Priest had 
the hardihood to report that conversation to the Arch- 
bishop, and some time afterwards the Archbishop came 
to the conclusion that the time had now arrived to 
open a House of the Good Shepherd. So he said to 
the Priest when he met him on another occasion, 'How 
is Mrs. Forster? When you see her tell her I was 
very much struck by that remark of hers about the 
stopping of sin for a time.' The poor old soul — she is 
in heaven to-night, I am sure — had to teach the Arch- 
bishop of New York Christianity. 

"Oh, but things have changed now ! Aren't there a 
do/en, or a couple of dozen, institutions in New York 
and vicinity stretching up into Westchester and Put- 
nam counties, and to Rockland county across the river, 
all for the protection of destitute children? Aren't 
there some ten or fifteen thousand of these destitute 
children provided for by these great Catholic charities? 
There are, perhaps, all those thousands provided for 
in so-called Catholic charities, but what kind of chari- 
ties are the}', I want to know, when they are all sup- 
ported, ever}' one of them, out of the treasury of the 
county and State of New York. The fact is that now 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 159 

there is almost a superfluity of these institutions, there 
is almost a race now between different orders of the 
Church to get up just such institutions Why ? Be- 
cause instead of being charities they are a source of 
gain. There is money in it. 

" The Catholic community of this city shamefully 
failed to do anything like the work of charity that it 
ought to have done until these appropriations began 
to come in from the county and State of New York. 
It was almost impossible to get a destitute Catholic 
child into an)- institution. Now it is not difficult. 
Now there are children supported there who have no 
business there. Now the unworthy father who has 
had several children and whose wife has died, and who 
wants to relieve himself of the burden of supporting 
his own children, or marries again and doesn't want to 
be bothered with that brood, has them committed to 
these institutions to be supported at $110 a head by 
the taxpayers of New York. And there is a scramble 
among the dear holy souls to get the destitute children, 
there is a scramble for the favor of Police Justice this 
or Police Justice that, that he may patronize their in- 
stitution by committing to it as many of these chil- 
dren as he can. They are crying for more. Why ? 
Because the children represent $110 a head, and the 

very buildings were largely built by appropriations bj 



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the Legislature of the State. The children m those 
institutions are almost, without exception, supported 
by the public treasury." 

They make these institutions a source of revenue,, 
pouring the money into the hands of the Priests. 

During the five years from 1871 to 1876 the cost to 
the people in King's County, New York, from these 
children was reported as having risen from $40,000 to 
$172,000. 

TREATMENT OF ORPHANS. 

44 In Paterson, N. J., is the St, Joseph's Orphan 
Asylum. Enter there. It is a cold, cheerless morn- 
ing. Behold the children without fire in January, 
without shoes, bare shoulders and bare arms, crying 
and shivering with cold. They rise at 6 o'clock, 
hastily dress and repair to the bathroom, the older 
orphans always assisting the younger, because the 
Sisters are forbid touching them. After they are 
washed and combed, they proceed to a class room for 
morning prayers ; then a scant} and unpalatable break- 
fast, which, without any change, always consists of dry 
bread and coffee, without milk or sugar, made from 
the refuse coffee of the Sisters' table. The orphans' 
table is covered with a black, greasy oilcloth; to each 
child is thrown a piece of bread, which is eaten from 
the table without a plate; the coffee is served in tin 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 161 

cups. They do all the work of the refectory, scrub 
the halls, dormitories, class rooms, make beds, sweep, 
and wash dishes, etc. 

"At 8:30 A. m. those who are permitted to attend 
school assemble in the clothes room, where they divest 
themselves of their old and tattered clothes and don the 
red or green plaid uniform, with which the)' appear in 
public. At 12 m. they go to dinner, if it can be so 
called, made of infected meat, thickened with the waxy 
remnants of the unleavened wafer and crusts of moldy 
bread, portioned out to them in cups, from which they 
eat with discolored pewter spoons. At 1 o'clock the}' 
again go to school, and remain there until 3, when 
school is dismissed. After school the uniform is re- 
placed by their old, comfortless rags. At 5 o'clock 
they have supper, consisting of mush and molasses, 
and at times of mush and buttermilk. Sometime a 
child's stomach refuses this food. He is then whipped 
or starved until he is glad to eat anything. 

" The children, on the second day of my arrival, 
were compelled by Sister Ann Joseph to run with bare 
feet in the snow for one half hour, and she applied the 
cat-o'-nine-tails vigorously on the bare shoulders of 
those who Stopped or hesitated. When asked a reason 
for such conduct, the reply was, 'to make them tOUgh 
and hardy,' as she (lid 'not believe in making hot-house 



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plants of orphans.' Children were left until their 
heads were covered w 7 ith vermin and with sores and 
scabs. For the least digression they were cruelly 
beaten, sometimes until the blood would flow, and all 
in the name of religion. " 

Is this Christian charity ? Money earned by hard 
working people to support these institutions, which 
are only a mockery under the name of Christian chmity. 



XV. 

THE CANON LAW AND LATE PAPAL 
UTTERANCES. 

The leading provisions of the Canon Law, the un- 
disputed, fundamental code of Romanism, are as fol- 
lows : 

" I. All human power is from evil, and must 
therefore be standing under the Pope. 

"II. The temporal powers must act uncondition- 
ally in accordance with the orders of the spiritual. 

44 III. The Church is empowered to grant, or to 
take away, any temporal possession. 

14 IV. The Pope has the right to give countries 
and nations which are non-Catholic to Catholic regents, 
who can reduce them to slavery. 

44 V. The Pope can make slaves of those Christian 

subjects whose Prince or ruling power IS interdicted 
by the Pope. 

44 VI. The laws of the Church, concerning the 

liberty of the Church and the Papal power, are based 
upon divine inspiration. 



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"VII. The Church lias the right to practice the 
unconditional censure of books. 

"VIII. The Pope has the right to annul State 
laws, treaties, constitutions, etc., to absolve from obe- 
dience thereto, as soon as they seem detrimental to the 
rights of the Church, or those of the clergy. 

" IX. The Pope possesses the right of admonish- 
ing, and, if need be, of punishing the temporal rulers, 
Kmperors and Kings, as well as of drawing before the 
spiritual forum any case in which a mortal sin occurs. 

"X. Without the consent of the Pope no tax or 
rate of any kind can be levied upon a clergyman, or 
upon any Church whatsoever. 

"XI. The Pope has the right to absolve from 
oaths, and obedience to the persons and the laws of 
the Princes whom he excommunicates. 

l> XII. The Pope can annul all • legal relations of 
those in ban, especially their marriages. 

"XIII. The Pope can release from every obliga- 
tion, oath, vow, either before or after being made. 

11 XIV. The execution of Papal commands for the 
persecution of heretics causes remission of sins. 

1( XV. He who kills one that is excommunicated 
is no murderer in a legal sense." 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 165 

UTTERANCES OF LEO XIII. 

The latest encyclical of Leo XIII. issued at Rome, 
January 10, 1890, is mainly devoted to the relations of 
Church and State, as these effect Catholics, and 

"Is to describe more exactly the duties of Catholics 
* * % to restore the principles and practices of 
Christianity in private life and in all parts of the social 
organism. 

It maintains — 

" That cases happen in which the State demands 
one thing from the citizen and religion the opposite 
from Christians, and this undoubtedlj' for no other 
reason than that the heads of the State pay no regard 
to the sacred power of the Church, or desire to make 
it subject to them." 

"It is an impious deed to break the laws of Jesus 
Christ for the purpose of obeying the magistrates, or 
to transgress the laws of the Church under the pretext 
of observing the civil law." 

" But if the laws of the State are in open contradic- 
tion with the Divine law, if they command anything 
prejudicial to the Church, or are hostile to the du 
imposed by religion, or violate in the person 
Supreme Pontiff the authority of Jesus Christ, then 
indeed it is a duty to resist them and a crime to obey 



1 66 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 

them — a crime fraught with injury to the State itself.'' 
44 It must be considered a duty by Christians to be 
ruled and guided by the authority and leadership of 
the Bishops, and especially the Apostolic See. * : ' : * 
Hence it is that the Pontiff ought to judge with author- 
ity what is contained in revelation, what is consonant, 
and what disagrees with it; and for the same reason it 
is incumbent on him to point out w T hat is moral and 
what immoral; what is necessary to do and what to 
avoid, in order to attain salvation." 

"They receive from the Church the rule of their 
faith; they know with certainty that in obeying its 
authority and allowing themselves to be guided by it, 
they will be placed in possession of the truth. * * * 
We must receive entirely and with the same assent all 
things and everything ascertained to have been revealed 
by God." 

" Furthermore, in politics, w 7 hich are inseparably 
bound up w T ith the laws of morality and religious 
duties, men ought always and in the first place to serve, 
as far as possible, the interests of Catholicism. As 
soon as they are seen to be in danger, all differences 
should cease between Catholics." 

In an earlier encyclical the present Pope had said: 
44 We exhort all Catholics who would devote care- 
ful attention to public matters to take an active part 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 167 

in all municipal affairs and elections, and to further 
the principles of the Church in all public services, 
meetings and gatherings. All Catholics must make 
themselves felt as active elements in daily political life 
in the countries where they live. They must pene- 
trate wherever possible in the administration of civil 
affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and 
energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going be- 
yond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics 
should do all in their power to cause the Constitution 
of the States and legislation to be modeled in the prin- 
ciples of the true Church. All Catholic writers and 
journalists should never lose for an instant from view 
the above prescriptions. All Catholics should redouble 
their submission to authority, and unite their whole 
heart, soul, body and mind in the defence of the Church 
and Christian wisdom. " 

RIGHTS THE STATE DOES NOT HAVE. 

From the Syllabus of Pius IX., issued December S. 
1864, the following paragraphs are found: 

"The State has not the right to leave every man 
free to profess and embrace whatever religion he shall 
deem true. 

"It has not the right to enact that the ecclesiastical 
power shall require the permission of the civil power 

in order to the exercise of its authority. 



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"It has not the right to treat as an excess of power, 
or as usurping the rights of Princes, anything that the 
Roman Pontiffs or Ecumenical Councils have done. 

"It has not the right to adopt the conclusions of a 
National Church Council, unless confirmed by the 
Pope. 

"It has not the right of establishing a National 
Church separate from the Pope. 

"It has not the right to the entire direction of pub- 
lic schools. 

" It has not the right to assist subjects who wish to 
abandon Monasteries or Convents." 

RIGHTS AND POWERS OF THE CHURCH. 

The same Syllabus affirms thus: 

"She (the Church) has the right to require the 
State not to leave every man free to profess his own 
religion. 

"She has the right to exercise her power without 
the permission or consent of the State. 

"She has the right to prevent the foundation of 
any National Church not subject to the authority of 
the Roman Pontiff. 

41 She has the right to deprive the civil authority of 
the entire government of Public Schools. 



THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 169 

" She has the right of perpetuating the union of 
Church and State. 

"She has the right to require that the Catholic 
religion shall be the only religion of the State, to the 
exclusion of all others. 

"She has the right to prevent the State from grant- 
ing the public exercise of their own worship to per- 
sons immigrating into it. 

"She has the power of requiring the State not tc 
permit free expression of opinion." 

"The present Pontiff, Leo XIII., in a letter to the 
Bishop of Perigweux, July 27, 1884, explicitly con- 
firms the foregoing, thus: "The teaching given by 
this Apostolic See, whether contained in the Syllabus 
and other acts of our illustrious predecessor, or in our 
own Encyclical Letters, has given clear guidance to 
the faithful as to what should be their thoughts and 
their conduct in the midst of the difficulties of times 
and events. There they will find a rule for the direc- 
tion of their minds and their works." 

How can a Roman Catholic be a loyal follower of 
Leo XIII. and a loyal American citizen when the 
teaching of America is "that all men are born tree and 

equal and with certain inalienable rights.' 1 



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